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You are correct. I did find out they do actually have three manufacturing plants in the USA, Florida, Kansas and Oregon. Also plants in China, two in Taiwan one in Poland and one in the Netherlands. I'm glad they reinvest in America! The point I was making is most everything we consume is now made in China or other overseas locations. How reliant were we on these countries in the 1940's up until around 1970's? Very little. Imagine if we had to have WW3. How/who would we get to ramp up our military equipment we would need quickly. We did almost all of that in a few months in WW2. American industry provided almost two-thirds of all the Allied military equipment produced during the war: 297,000 aircraft, 193,000 artillery pieces, 86,000 tanks and two million army trucks. In four years, American industrial production, already the world's largest, doubled in size. Just can't figure out now why, with all this high tech we could not come close to this, would have to rely on some other country to do it for us. Pitiful. We do have the computer geeks, software engineers, R&D, Programmers etc etc. None of that will be much help when you need equipment on site ASAP. Oh, forgot Earnie from China is retired now. Made MILLIONs and sent his extra 10% to help out the "Big Guy". This "big guy" used to work assembly line, building Garmin GPS units in China, graveyard shift, 18 hour days weekdays only. On the weekends he would fly himself back to the U.S. on his personal space shuttle, then would hop into his 18 wheeler and make a few trips around the country. No one knew this, but he was quietly working for the CIA as a spy back in China, personally responsible for the 1949 Chinese Communist revolution!
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