[harpseal]

"The Department of Defense provision is what we call a unicorn provision — because what they want to buy doesn't exist. Flat-panel screens are no longer made in the United States," says Harris Miller, president of the Information Technology Association of America. "You would have to recreate those industries in the United States, and those industries would exist for only one client, the Department of Defense," he says.

Gee I guess the Springfield and Harpers ferry arsenals should never have been established and the uSA from 1789 to 1812 should haver bought all its cannon and muskets from England. Becdause teh flat pannels are not currently manufactured in the USA and they actually are critical to the defense of the USA maybe we do need some production capability here. What a concept.

[goldstategop]

Its too hard for businesses to manufacture in America. <sarcasm

[Mr. Bird]

Becdause teh flat pannels are not currently manufactured in the USA and they actually are critical to the defense of the USA maybe we do need some production capability here. What a concept.

Well, who's "we"? Start the sucker up, why don't you? Your government is trying to create a market for you, so why not take advantage? I'm sure you can convince me and the rest of the taxpayers that paying exhorbitant prices for your product, thanks to everything from payroll taxes to unionized labor, is a good thing.

Why don't we just shut the borders and start up all of the industries that have left? No imports, no exports, just one big happy country? Because it would suck, that's why. Feel free to peruse the history of Soviet command economies to get a taste.

[RaceBannon]

Flat panel screens used to be made at a company I worked for, INFODEX, and they also made 1" color screens, 29 inch screens, super high resolution, too.

So, I dont know who said it cant be made here, I think they are still in business, INFODEX, Wolcott Connecticut.

[I_dmc]

Perhaps flat panels could be manufactured at the Sharp plant, in Texas, I believe?