No one said that. We have limited resources, we should be focusing on industries that provide our country competitive advantages and real economic growth.
This is apolitical, dipshit. Regardless of who's in office, we shouldn't be aspiring to build more pencils and erasers.
Wow, look at the dumb imagination on you.
Highly educated, like the trades, nursing, engineering - you know, people who "don't produce anything of any value in this country."
Amazing how some of you have to frame everything with a political skew when attempting to understand simple concepts.