We have industry, but lack promotion

It's amazing to see how the past few years have backfired in our faces with the outsourcing of jobs to foreign countries. Our ancestors came to this country and what was the first thing they did (after they took most of the land from the Native Americans)? They learned how to be self-sufficient. Families needed to eat, so they depended on the earth to provide food for them, but not without putting forth massive amounts of effort. Farmers are willing to mass produce just about anything they possibly can because it provides a decent, honest living for them.
With all of the advances in technology and experimentation in the world, I see very few reasons why we cannot be a self-sufficient country when it comes to our natural resources. We have millions of acres in the south just waiting for someone to come out, till it and resort back to the ways of our ancestors by sowing the seeds that will very soon produce green crops of freedom for the United States. Our country was founded on the basic principles of freedom from the reign of foriegn monopolies that want to use and abuse us because they think they hold the keys to our successful ways of life. Have we regressed as a society to think that foriegn crude oil is a must for what can sustain us? BioWillie doesn't seem to think so.