So, what is it? Every country should try to be self-sufficient because inequality causes famine, war, and a sense of inequality. DJT is trying to bring things that were made abroad back into the United States, especially manufacturing, because for a long time, products were imported from many other countries, but especially China. And now he has arranged all these mineral deals in different parts of the world. Quite clever.
Lots of countries have talked about expanding their self-sufficiency, but most of the time, it’s just talk. The UK has had a succession of governments promising to change its reliance on imports, but things seem to be going in the opposite direction.
For instance, we have some of the worst water companies in the world, the waterways are polluted, we lose millions of gallons of water a year through leaks, but the directors still get massive profits instead of getting a prison sentence. We need to grow more of our own food, but the incentive to do this is being eroded. We don’t store gas anymore. And oil is being suppressed, I like the idea of wind farms and solar panels, but at the back of my mind is the what if? a new type of cheap energy comes along and we have to dismantle the wind farms and solar panels, this is when you become a traveler (scrap merchant). And what has happened to our manufacturing sector, because it’s not there. When I started as an apprentice toolmaker (1957), there were block advertisements in every newspaper from firms desperate to attract skilled engineers. (Yes, I know it’s an age thing to mention how good the past was, and that the music was better.) Because of my age, I don’t care anymore.
Message to the UK government. Become self-sufficient or face the consequences.
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