[Mase]

12 months is about $4.8 trillion orders in a year.

Pretty impressive. That would make our manufacturing base alone almost as large as the world's second biggest economy, Japan ($5.1 trillion). And to think some here believe we don't make nothin' no more.

[Last Dakotan]

That would make our manufacturing base alone almost as large as the world's second biggest economy, Japan ($5.1 trillion).

Woo Hoo - we're number two!

So, Japan has a bigger manufacturing sector than the United States though it is a 4 trillion dollar economy vs the 11 trillion GDP here.