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7. Someone here attacked me for saying that our export situation is

Reply to KoKo (Reply #6)

Wed Jan 22, 2014, 09:46 PM

Jan 2014

So dismal. But it is true - we don't manufacture that much any more. We used to be the steel capital of the world - if you wanted steel, you got it from the good old USA. Same with cars and agricultural machinery and car parts and ag machinery parts.

Now all we have to offer is weaponry. Which is indeed a big business. But a sad and sorry one.

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