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To: Argus

It does make you wonder. What would happen if we went to war with them?


4 posted on 10/12/2009 4:58:13 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: luckystarmom

Both the US as well as China would lose.

We aren’t gonna get rid of ‘made in china’ until we shrink this government.


5 posted on 10/12/2009 5:00:13 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing ( Those who have never failed work for those of us who have. - Henry Ford)
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To: luckystarmom

This is something nobody talks about. We import some of our military supplies nowadays. I think we still manufacture a lot of what the military needs, but not all of it.

Could we fight and win World War II today, considering that we have exported so much manufacturing? We converted factories, which produced everything from clothing to vacuum cleaners to glass products, to supply the war effort in World War II. Today, lots of those factories don’t exist anymore. There would not be much left to convert to the war effort if we ever had to fight such a war again.

And what indeed, if we ever had military conflict with such a huge trading partner as China?

Why would we import apple juice concentrate from China, when so many places in America grow apples? Food is one area in which we still produce a great amount of products for export, or at least I thought we did. Is it really so much more expensive to use American based workers to process food in factories here in America?


8 posted on 10/12/2009 5:07:42 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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