Posted on 11/12/2019 5:47:32 PM PST by daniel1212
I recall some quote from high school history class. Some German General after the war said something like “We would shoot one bomber down, and the next day the Americans would send 8 in place of it.”
From that same class I recall the teacher (Mr. Herzog - he was great!) talking about how great the German jet fighters were. Except Germany was so low on fuel, they would cart them out to the runways using horses!
The lesson being of course - you can have all the latest technology, but if you don’t have the raw materials to fight - you’ll lose.
He was also the coach of our debate team. I recall the one night in adjoining motel rooms, and we could hear him yelling at the T.V. with the movie “Tora, Tora, Tora” on full volume!
LOL. How did we ever survive without OSHA, the EPA and HHS?
Nearly all leftists in DC are globalists. But a significant number of Republicans are not.
My Mom was one of Rosie’s Riveters at the Fore River Shipyard (Quincy, Mass.) during WWII while my Dad was serving as a medic on Iwo.
Also, Bath Iron Works (Bath, Maine) launched a destroyer every
three weeks during the War.
I remember the interrogation of one German prisoner. It went along the line of why he surrendered. He said that he fired a Panzerfaust and destroyed a Sherman, then he shot another Panzerfaust . . . and then a third. "But the tanks kept coming. You had more tanks than I had Panzerfausts."
[Distantly related] I was a pre-teen when the war ended but was always interested in the military. I talked with one vet who, in May 1945, was passing MILES of German POWs walking along the side of the road. The sky was almost black with aircraft and the stream of trucks and tanks was unending.
He asked one POW what he thought of Hitler now, and the guy thumbed up at the aircraft and sneered "Propaganda".
That book was full of neat stories about how we handled things, from something as simple as re-arranging production lines to taking trucks apart.
I think it was Knudsen who visited a plant and noticed how the assembly lines were laid out - the item would move along the line to the end, then be transported down to the far end of the next line to continue the process, on and on. Knudsen reversed every other line so the part just moved across the aisle rather than all the way down the end to continue. Increased production by 20% without stressing the workers
We were shipping thousands of trucks to Russia, when somebody complained that they were taking up too much room in the ships. They found that they could ship 10 times as many if they took the trucks apart. They set up re-assembly plants in Iran, using the locals, and then drove the finished product to Russia.
We won on many fronts just by sheer ingenuity.
Name on GOP Senator that is not a globalist, is not pro H-1B visa job give away and also for offshoring and anti tariff. Name one.
Of course, it depends on your definitions.
Being in favor of trade is not being a globalist.
Trade has been used to destroy the US industrial base while making Wall Street rich and the Republicans Party facilitated that.
Right now they are trying to pass a huge H-1B bill allowing 150,000 Indians into the USA ( Fairness to immigrants Act, what a joke ) by unanimous consent. None of them are stopping that.
The Republican Party used to be the party of the tariff and NEEDS TO RETURN TO THAT ASAP. They need stop being the Free Traitor™ party.
My grandfather was 34 in 1939 and thru luck chanced into pentagon contracts to first paint bases and then construct barracks and hangars etc
He and his two partners got rich doing it
And all three came from nothing
Nothing since 1866 anyhow
It changed the trajectory of his descendants via education and opportunities
So? Not all trade is bad.
Some has been, especially that with China.
In addition, some trade has been very good.
Trade in our agricultural products has been very good for the U.S.
I have no problems with Wall Street becoming rich (my investment in my 401K type fund benefit me) as long as the long term interests of the United States are put first.
My 401K type fund does me no good if the U.S. is destroyed.
Then you read wrong. The vast majority of the U.S. military equipment is made in the U.S. We have many shoe and clothing plants making all sorts of things across the U.S. There is a plant in my hometown that makes fire resistant uniforms for fire fighters, military, etc. It also makes climate controlled clothing that helps keep men cool when riding bikes, running, etc.
Hate to tell ya but U.S. industrial output today is greater than it was in the 1940’s.
During WWII, the Germans manufactured 50,000 kubelwagons. Their jeep. The US manufactured 500,000 Jeeps.
The overwhelming majority of U.S. military equipment is made in the U.S. That includes clothing and footwear.
The U.S. textile industry makes the world’s most advanced polymers and fibers.
The U.S. is also a leader in technologically advanced clothing that includes body temperature control, perspiration reduction, injury treatment, waterproofing, and bacteria blocking.
As for China, it’s industrial prowess is fading fast. Factories are closing more than opening and it is losing manufacturing jobs faster than gaining them.
Farming is only 1% of GDP and has way too much influence in politics. A patriot doesn't love his 401K more than he loves his country.
Horse pucky.
U.S. industrial output is greater now than the 1940’s.
I would only go along with that because they chose to surrender instead of fight against the leftists. Then I would agree. However, how many projects have been delayed due to lefty kook lawsuits? look to Kalifornistan for their wildfires, sparked because they don’t allow clearing and management, because of lefty kooks.
Destroyers and aircraft carriers were the two critical needs of the Navy.
The one I remember is that we stopped building half-tracks in 1943 because we had more than we could use. When I was a kid the 1970s I remember seeing ads where you could buy a complete, never-used, WW2 half-track in the original crates, some assembly required.
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