[Coleus]

A healthy national economy has to produce a large part of its own needs. >>

What's going to happen if we get into a war like WWII? We have no manufacturing base to make anything.

[Jeff Head]

Exactly. A number of us have been harping and warning about this for years.

See THIS THREAD

...and then check out THIS if you get the chance.

[endthematrix]

Re: manufacturing base

I attempt to always insert this into the FREE-TRADE debate.
Threads always polarize into "fortress US protectionists" and "the ability to buy goods at lower cost" arguments. Many on Capitol Hill and industry are talking about how globalization will change out superpower status. Many are clueless, thinking will import war material from our enemies to produce in fictional factories, the ones that have been relocated to our enemy years before.