[bigtoona]

What’s scary is that if we went into another world war, we are toast because we make NOTHING here anymore. We would not be able to build weapons on a mass scale. China could convert its factories in a heartbeat.

[virgil]

Yeah. What happened to all of those steel mills? Bethlehem Steel is gone. I think US steel is still around, but not like they were.

[VanShuyten]

“What’s scary is that if we went into another world war, we are toast because we make NOTHING here anymore”

I read a report several years ago that said we’d be really screwed because we don’t make ZIPPERS any more.

[Kellis91789]

I agree. It goes completely against “free trade” but I’ve been thinking there should be absolute limits on imports of manufactured goods. Say only 20% of the market for any product with national security impact can be imported. Auction off “import licenses” for each product to see who gets the privilege of selling to 20% of our market. Rather than calling it a “Tariff”, call it an “import license” that just happens to equal Trump’s 35% of the value of the product.

[Drew68]

What’s scary is that if we went into another world war, we are toast because we make NOTHING here anymore. We would not be able to build weapons on a mass scale. China could convert its factories in a heartbeat.

We make nukes here. That's all that the next World War will use. It'll be over quickly.