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nadinbrzezinski

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13. Actually our industrial capacity is bellow per wwII

Reply to Zalatix (Reply #11)

Wed Mar 14, 2012, 01:28 PM

Mar 2012

It's been creative destruction of our industrial capacity. I remember Paul Kennedy warning in editorials when it started in the 1980s...

We can still turn it around, but it needs to have some serious changes that our leaders really do not want to enact, partly, they will partially do when labor rights are back to about 1850, as well as environmental protections. I suspect tere will be an uprising well before that point, or occupy will start to force peaceful changes.

But the chinese have taken steel furnaces in crates...on the bright side, there is one. We will have to rebuild, that means newer cleaner tech.

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Funny, because those were my exact words.... Junkdrawer Mar 2012 #7

And I must add, my condolances for your loss! Zalatix Mar 2012 #8

Would be a long run dmallind Mar 2012 #5

The point of no return probably was nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #6

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The U.S.A. no longer has the capacity? That's a lie propagated by Zalatix Mar 2012 #11

If the boss says we can't do it, we can't do it. hunter Mar 2012 #12

Actually our industrial capacity is bellow per wwII nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #13

Then how is the military keeping itself maintained? Zalatix Mar 2012 #16

Where do you think the chips for our smart weapons come from? nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #18

Chips, from China? I never knew any country could be that stupid. Zalatix Mar 2012 #19

The question is whether we will have the time to do so nadinbrzezinski Mar 2012 #21

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