The majority of money spent in the US stays here and benefits everyone here in some way or another...
You’re comparing German engineering with Chinese....no comparison...
Foreign auto makers had to step up their game to compete with us....
I have no doubt about us digging in and standing tall if something like a war would happen....but without the factories to begin with....we would be in a huge hole trying to build all the necessary steel mills and founderies which were dismantled, sold and are now in other countries... many foreign countries have state of the art mills now.....but for some reason they can’t get the type of quality we could.....nobody could match our quality. Don’t forget the ONLY reason we won WWII was because we could make more tanks, ships, planes and bombs faster than Hitler...and also the “mill hunky” work ethic. Pittsburgh was a giant war target because of the mills.... another thing we took the war to them to keep it out of here.....if it was here it would have been another story. Which is why we will always need the means and equipment to take the fight to our enemy. A depleted military and the lack of capability to restock isn’t worth anything.....might makes right....
I will never bitch about how much tax Money we spend on military hardware. Better for us have it than them. I would love to see what’s in our secret bag of tricks....
When Polaris stopped the Indian motorcycle the rumor was they were going to convert that assembly Line over to make slingshots....
I would hope the uniqueness of the SS would keep it popular..into the foreseeable future....but bean counters worried strictly about the bottom line and squeezing out every nickel of profit could quickly kill that....