[Tinian]

He cautioned that a scarcity of steel resulting from a building boom, in China and India could slow reconstruction. "We can't get steel like we used to," Weiss said.

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This in the nation that built over 10,000 ships; 100,000+ armored vehicles and 300,000+ aircraft in four years in the early 1940s.

"Free Trade" and "Globalism"----it's a beautiful thing.

Like you, I pine for the good old days of colonialism, when we could welsh on contracts without care and screw the hell out of all dusky-skinned heathens.

[Never2baCrat]

when we could welsh on contracts

I take umbrage at your remark. It should be ‘welch’ not ‘welsh’. I am the latter, not the former. Thank you. (Insert Smilie).

[FreedomPoster]

Yes, all those U.S. colonies in . . . in . . . in . . .wait a minute, where were those U.S. colonies?