Comment by bluGill

The US has not lost industry. We have lost unskilled and semi-skilled grunt labors, but there is a lot of manufacturing happening here and a lot of expertise. If you want to cut a piece of metal by hand to high accuracy - sorry we have moved all that to CNC (often laser) cutters and nobody remembers how to do it anymore. However if you want to take those cut parts and assemble them into something - there is plenty of expertise to be had.