
Originally Posted by
Chiefster23
What scares me is that much of our manufacturing base is gone overseas. We don’t make our own drugs. Much of our steel is imported. We don’t smelt lead or tan leather. We haven’t built a new refinery in decades. Damned near everything is imported now days. Hell ,we only have a handful of shipyards left and few shipyard workers. Electrical transformers imported. Even locomotives! GE locomotives are made in Canada. Not a big deal but you get my drift. The navy says they are getting rid of 17 ships because they cannot crew them. How we gonna fight and win a war?