People say the US doesn't make anything anymore. The article showed historical industrial production in constant dollars increasing over decades, and also showed the share of world output up from 12 years ago. If you still say America has no manufacturing and won't back it up, then the impression is that you have convictions so solid that any data presented will always be called 'scant' no matter what.
Lol, show me where I said America has no manufacturing. I said the data presented does not support the conclusions the author of the article claims, and that the stats generated with nothing but totals tell us very little.
It's amazing how many people just read something, then erect their own straw man claim about what they say someone said (which they didn't say), then demand they defend it.