Just walk through your house (and garage/carport/driveway) and add up all the things that are US-made and those foreign-made. The US has been losing US-made on a continuing basis, product after product, yet now that it involves the auto industry to the point of evaporation has anyone taken notice other than the folks who lost jobs in the shoe, textile, ceramics, electronics, appliance, toy and other such industries.

We buy - the rest of the world makes. That's what we've gotten to. And since we cannot even produce all tthat we need to defend ourselves in a conventional way, we're setting ourselves up for a future that involves either surrender or nuclear response.

There's more to all of this than the logo on a hood ornament.