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To: neverdem; narses; SunkenCiv; cogitator; Nachum; GeronL

No.

Worse, we don’t ven have the industrial ability to build the industrial capacity to BEGIN building the shipyards and armories and factories to BUILD that military.

In WWII, it took a buildup starting (slowly!) in 1938-39-40-41 to BEGIN the growth using Depression-era empty factories, steel mills, and mines and foundries! - to have airplanes and rifles and cannons and ships delivered in 1943 and 1944 and 1945.


17 posted on 12/13/2013 12:26:49 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
In WWII, it took a buildup starting (slowly!) in 1938-39-40-41 to BEGIN the growth using Depression-era empty factories, steel mills, and mines and foundries!

And many factories that weren't empty. Singer, for example, quit making sewing machines and started making machine guns. Today Singer makes sewing machines in Brazil and China. We couldn't quickly retool these factories if we wanted to because they just don't exist in the U.S. anymore.

74 posted on 12/14/2013 11:23:19 AM PST by Drew68
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