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Originally Posted by SteveZ
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.
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Why can't/don't we become the world manufacturer of solar panels, wind-mill blades and turbines, lithium batteries, sea turbines ??? Can you imagine what it would do to our Nation's economy if we became the leading world manufacturer of economical alternatives to fossil fuel? (Centuries ago the Netherland became a world power when thay a)harnased the wind and b) harnesed the sea with ther dike system. Then England discovered they were sitting on a giant lump of coal and the power shift began. Then oil bubbled up in Titusville... The history is clear.... the nation that controls the power has the power.