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The managerial priesthood in Washington delivered eight hundred fifty million dollars to six domestic companies so that the United States might again produce the nitrile gloves required by its hospitals and first responders. The principal recipient, Blue Star NBR in Virginia, was charged with erecting the first American facility in a generation capable of manufacturing nitrile butadiene rubber; the facility never produced a single batch, and its chief executive now stands weeks from dismantling the plant so that its components may be shipped overseas.
This transfer of American capital and machinery to the workshops of the East is not an accident of execution but the predictable fruit of an administrative order that substitutes political disbursement for genuine commercial discipline. The same apparatus that funnels public treasure into favored enterprises simultaneously maintains open borders and trade policies that render domestic production uncompetitive from the outset.
Christendom once understood that a people’s capacity to clothe, arm, and provision itself constituted an indispensable mark of sovereignty. From the mercantile statutes of Tudor England through the protective tariffs of the early American republic, ordered nations treated industrial self-sufficiency as a moral and political necessity rather than a discretionary program of grants.
The present regime has inverted that inheritance. It lavishes funds upon the very sectors it has already exposed to foreign predation, then registers astonishment when the subsidized assets migrate to the stronger hand. The City of Man measures success by the volume of appropriations; the City of God measures it by the preservation of ordered liberty and productive capacity within the household of the nation.
The faithful remnant must therefore reject every further call for industrial policy administered by the same bureaucracy that has already proved incapable of guarding the border or balancing a budget. Real sovereignty requires the restoration of tariff regimes, immigration restriction, and monetary discipline that once allowed American workshops to flourish without perpetual subsidy.
Those who continue to petition the managerial priesthood for fresh tranches of public capital merely accelerate the dispossession. The plant in Wytheville will not be the last asset carried away in crates while the subsidies continue to flow.
