Economic Might IS Military Might

A guy somewhere in the United States is making pens, lots of it but it is hard for him to make it completely hundred percent here since one or two stuff is not made in this country and the state in which the guy lives says that it should not be said Made in America but something like Made in America with imported and domestic parts (I have seen this in some products). This was an article on the internet. The guy tries it hard to make everything here and refuses to outsource his work even after getting all the temptation to do it. My point in all of this saying is that the country’s strength should be gauged by its manufacturing capacity. If we are unable to produce, even the basic of commodities, how can we be sure that in later years we will be able to produce more complex stuff?

Although I know that we are a service based and information based economy, but we started with manufacturing and it stills pay a less but pivotal part of our economy. We cannot assume that everybody will be working or get trained in information services. Our middle class rose from manufacturing and not services. Look at China, it started with manufacturing and not services. And if we have strong economy, we will have strong military. We cannot and should and must not outsource our weapons manufacturing to outside countries, where we may be at the whims of others when we do need complex weapons to fight wars.