Reply #3: I've been saying that for a very long time

[Warpy]

that this country is going to be SOL very quickly in the next big war. We no longer make cloth. We no longer make shoes. We no longer make the electronics components the military is utterly dependent upon. We don't even manufacture sufficient bullets to supply the forces now in Iraq.

The government (and I mean free market dogmatics in both parties) has allowed us to be systematically looted of every industry this country will need if even mild economic sanctions are imposed, let alone an all out war. We are now in fact a very weak nonindustrialized country with an increasingly desperate population and a disporpotionately large military funded by debt.

These stupid and shortsighted policies have put us all in grave danger. The system cannot be sustained unless radical changes are made.