Professor Elam

Jerry Flint  is literally worried about whether there will be an American owned auto industry. Click to read this important article.

I wrote a similar warning in my newspaper column at the end of February, I copied it into the next post.

Think about this from a national security standpoint.  During WW II, America won by simply out manufacturing the Axis powers. We supplied fighter planes to Russia We lent destroyers to England.  We built over 100,000 tanks and some 290,000 airplanes. We perfected the duece and a half all wheel drive truck. The Dodge Power Wagon was the original SUV.  If we lose our American owned car makers, would Toyota take up the slack in armaments for us?  In Flags of Our Father, it is pointed out that the US is out of credit, the Arabs are demanding gold for oil, gee aren’t we about there again with the weak dollar?  While one can doubt the probability  of another prolonged WW II type encounter, we have been in Afghan and Iraq longer than we were in WW II already. And again, it is our armored vehicles, unmanned drones, and night vision that have aided in the fighting.  Without this manufacturing capability, the US would be France. Ahem.