[SomeCallMeTim]

I was talking about total production not exports. We are falling in just about every heavy industry.

Really?? Because, your question specifcally mentioned EXPORTS.

Mfg is UP, across the board, in the past 10 years... practically every industry. Not as much as it SHOULD be, or COULD be. But... up.

My point is.. the USA still PRODUCES.. MANY things. It's a myth that we don't.

[central_va]

Let's take steel, we are number 4 and China produces 8 times the amount of steel we do. Looks we wnt down 17% in 4 years

Rank Country/Region 2007 2008 2009 2010 Crude steel production (million tonnes):

                   2007   2008    2009    2010
—	 World	1,351.3	1326.5	1,219.7	1,413.6
1	 China	494.9	500.3	573.6	626.7
—	 EU       209.7	198.0	139.1	172.9
2	 Japan	120.2	118.7	87.5	  109.6
3	 USA  	98.1	 91.4  98.2	 80.6
4	 Russia	72.4	  68.5	60.0	   67.0