[hedgetrimmer]

and are the largest exporter in the world.

Yes. We export wheat and soybeans. They'll come in very hand if we have to respond to an attack and we need to build a lot of missile guidance systems very quickly. Oh pardon me? You say we need rare earth magnets to do that? Oh I am SURE China will make everyone work overtime and freight them to us on COSCO container ships so we can fight them when they attack Taiwan or any other allies we might have. Oh, yes, I am sure Dubai will expedite them so they are unloaded quickly from the ship too. You know they have to protect the $6.9 billion dollars they've invested in our real property, don't you?

[ClaireSolt]

There are 300,000 manufacturing companies in the US, dumkopf. But, I'll bet you do not and never have owned one of them.