[Antoninus II]

We don’t have much of a machine tool industry here and haven’t since the early 1980s. Without it, we probably could never be the “Arsenal of Democracy” again, even if we had to.

You don't live in Texas. I have over 35 years of machine shop experience.

[rlmorel]

I suspect that equaviator was talking about the the industry that makes machine tools, not the machinists themselves.

I admit to not knowing anything except to suspect that sentiment may be true.

What is your take on it?