The wont is pretty strong in the nation at the moment. Should the need arise, the whole effort would become mired in the process and paperwork, committees and focus groups before anything shovel ready could be brought online. There just is not the ready infrastructure in place to ramp up.
PNW has stripped itself of heavy industry in an attempt to appease the godless ecofreak contingent. There used to be steel foundries in PDX and SEA. Now they are dead, and the big steel racket has turned to shipping the metals to China (crushing cars and gathering scrap) instead of turning ore and old metals into fresh product. We no longer have any of the citizens who made America Great enough to fight the wars to share their stories. I can recall spending hours chatting with not only family, but neighbors about their efforts to keep America Free. From the little old lady across the street who built the .50 cal guns on the Boeing planes, to my grandfather in law who welded up Liberty ships. Neighbor women working in wartime factories, uncles, grandparents, parents who served in the Pacific, as well as neighbors and friends who returned from the European front. Stories shared of boys who my mother grew up with who did not come back, and those who did and made something of themselves and the nation. Liberty Gardens, ration books, doing without, coming together, gathering scrap and anything recyclable to aid in the war effort. Three Score and 15 years ago, we defeated enemies on both sides of the world. Today, we are concerned about safe spaces, crayons for the college children, and not being able to use free speech, lest it offend. Our labor pool is not in industry, but in service positions of selling foreign goods and hot drinks. Can these workers be trained to defend the nation, to be ready to kill if needed? Not to disparage those who served in Vietnam, but a goodly portion of that fighting force was made up of the unwilling and unready undermining those who would and could prosecute a war. <diatribe off> I could be, and most likely am, far off the mark in my assessment. clay > On Oct 24, 2019, at 9:15 PM, Scott Ritchey via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I think the problem is more cultural than industrial. If the US loses it > will be because leadership was not committed to win. In most regards the US > equipment during WWII that was qualitatively inferior to allies and the axis > powers. But the rate of US WWII production is astounding: a new Liberty ship > every 3 days, a new B-17 bomber every hour (24/7); and the US produced 90% of > all the gasoline used by all the armies during the war. The geopolitical > situation hasn't changed much but American will and confidence sure have. > Half of the newer generation think socialism is better than capitalism, not > that they could define either (or figure out what bathroom to use). > >> -----Original Message----- _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
