The Military ruined this country

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60. Would people stop using Velcro as an example

It was invented in 1948 by a Swiss electrical engineer and patented in 1955. The U.S. had nothing to do with its invention.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velcro

As for the rest, military manufacturing, especially the high tech items like aircraft, is done in the U.S. to keep the technology from going to the enemy. The workers are well-paid and in most arms industries, unionized. If the U.S. stopped manufacture of weapons, your manufacturing base would essentially collapse as very few things can be made in the U.S. that can't be made somewhere else for a lot less money. As we saw during Black Friday, people will still buy foreign made crap at Walmart despite the protests because they won't (or can't) pay the cost if the item was actually made in the U.S.A. and the workers were paid a decent wage.