Reply #104: Yes, the economy relies on household goods.

[tomreedtoon]

We make weapons. But we don't make them very well, do we? The tinfoil Hummers we sent to Iraq, the easily hackable military computers and computer-operated drones, the depleted-uranium shells and bullets that kill our troops as they're killing the enemy.

Remember when the can openers from Swing-A-Way were branded with the city they were made in? They aren't any more. You can't pronounce the name of the Chinese waste dump where they are now made, even if the Chinese government wanted that area identified.

It's worse than the fact that Americans can't be proud of making American goods. You can't even be proud to make American dog food in Rolla, Missouri any more. Drive along I-75 from Orlando to Saint Louis; you'll see dozens of little towns with rusting, destroyed industrial plants that used to be the pride of this nation. Those towns have nothing to be proud of any more.