Light bulbs.  Where are the factories making light bulbs?  Are they all in Communist China?  If China gets pissed off at US for ANY reason and they stop shipping us light bulbs, do we use up what store we have in warehouses and then the lights go out?  And that's just one example.

You can't throw up a factory in a day or a week.  How vulnerable are we, finances aside?

Now go back to discussing "the Evil Umpire".

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.