Question 1. To bring back manufacturing to the US, americans would need to collectively take a united stance on something other than electing a president. Although some say we actually dont even do that anymore, and even if we do, alot of people base their vote on political lines not what a candidate stands for.
Question 2. We are not so far removed from US manufacturing practices that a justification can be made why moving (at least recently exported jobs) jobs back here would dramatically increase most products/services.
I dont know about anyone else, but the cost of products and services have not decreased, to my knowledge on anything now being manufactured outside the US. What has increased is profits for these companies. All it takes is for people to open their eyes just a little to see whats actually going on. Its a business choice they have chosen and apparently they have every right to do so. Whats amazing yet not surprising is people havent boycotted business' that do this despite the fact everyone appears to disagree with it. Two other prime examples of industries raising prices citing increases "beyond their control" are tobacco and oil. Tobacco companies have tripled their prices just in the few short years I have been a smoker. At the inception of the increase they stated it was necessary based on federal tax increases and due in part to judgments levied against them, yet prices will never come back down. Secondly is oil who claim that the cost of fuel is directly related to the cost of oil. If this was actually the case profits wouldnt have ballooned to the point it has for them. Knowing this those of us who smoke continue to do so and for the most part I would have to say we all fill up our tanks each week without batting an eye. Things will change when enough of us have had all were going to stand and actually start being proactive to change them and not until. All of this has a root cause and that is where you have to start following the political trail. It doesnt take very much historical knowledge to see that in one shape or another this all has happened before. Those with power and influence have a very good reason to keep the rest of us in a world full of uncertainty, lacking stabilization, and non-united.