[XBob]

336 - I just bought a new pair of glasses. I tried to get some American made frames. Apparently we no longer make glasses in this country.

At 5 places I went, they only had Japanese, Chinese and Korean frames. No one had seen any american frames in years.

So - if we have a war with the orient, we go blind, as we have no glasses factories in this country.

[Toddsterpatriot]

336 - I just bought a new pair of glasses. I tried to get some American made frames. Apparently we no longer make glasses in this country.

At 5 places I went, they only had Japanese, Chinese and Korean frames. No one had seen any american frames in years.

So - if we have a war with the orient, we go blind, as we have no glasses factories in this country.

Well, if it's a matter of national security we must immediately restrict imports of foreign eyeglass frames.

The damn Chinese probably bug the frames they sell us now. We need an immediate government program to reduce our dependence on Chinese frames.

I have to go to sleep now. All this laughing is really wearing me out.

Happy Easter.

[discostu]

No, if we go to war with the orient we retool some metal shops to make glasses frames. The actual lenses get made in America (often times right in the place where you got the exam... ever actually look around a LensCrafters), it's just the frames (the least expensive, least technical part of a pair of glasses) that we don't bother to make here because there's no reason. Or we switch to contacts (made in the same place as the lenses generally). Or eye surgery (hard to offshore that).

The problem with all the "if we go to war" scenarios is they all assume we can't retool existing factories. That is a silly assumption that completely ignores how America behaved in every previous war.