I've noticed that the U.S. government usually only fixes issues in a short term mindset.. Same way they only gave stimulus checks and unemployment for a temporary time. I wish they would start working on long term solutions instead.
That's part of the problem - Representatives get elected every 2 years so they have a short term mindset.
But, the government isn't the only player here. U.S. Corporations hold some amount of responsibility for moving production overseas.
Corporations have even a shorter mindset - they need quarterly numbers to look good for Wall Street, so they don't think much past 3 months!
Govt has become increasingly risk adverse. Any proactive misstep is ruthlessly pilliored. So we're left with cycles of neglect, crisis, and oversteer.
Just one example: Michael Lewis' latest book Premonition details how the CDC went from proactive to hyper risk adverse. And we've just seen how that played out.