Posted on 06/03/2009 7:32:53 AM PDT by Nat Turner
This Buckeye is considering doing what NCR did. Ohio has fallen into the Toilet Bowl Belt.
Actually the rust belt has been dying since the 60’s so its at least 40+ years..
The dense infrastructure of automobile and related manufacturers, machine tool makers, and primary metals producers is still in the Rust Belt. This infrastructure has been eroding for decades. If the U.S. re-established protective tariffs, the South, or even a revitalized North, could reconstruct this network. We can have our manufacturing increasingly outsourced, but we cannot sustain the sort of small wars in southwest Asia we are engaged in, much less face an increasing challenge from China or Russia, without the necessary manufacturing capacity. We have imported small arms ammunition from Israel and clothing from southeast Asia for our military. We have not had to import such basics since the Revolutionary War. If the shipping lanes are challenged by a hostile power, we may not be able to sustain even Iraq/Afghanistan type limited wars.
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