Why should manufacturing jobs be well-paying? Human productivity has not kept up with business improvements at all. A contemporary robot can assemble car modules much faster than a robot from, say, the 60s. A human now works at the same speed as a human from the 60s.

"The US can't make anything" is an absurd delusion. We are the second most productive economy in the world.

> Both because those are well-paying jobs and because it's a matter of national security.

We are fully capable of meeting our defense needs already. If you really care about reinforcing our military-industrial capability the best way to do it is to arm Ukraine.