[_Jim]

You can see all sorts of numbers but the bottom line is that if we had exported our production capability

Non sequitur; conflation of exports of product with off-shoring of production: Not the same thing.

[ex-snook]

You left part of the sentence out. Here is the whole thing.

"You can see all sorts of numbers but the bottom line is that if we had exported our production capability to Japan, Germany and China we would have been up the creek to win WW II."