LOL, we love to think that the manufacturing base will be important in 'time of war' but, really, it takes 15-20 years to ramp up a major new weapons system nowadays. I'd highly recommend Herman's book "Freedom's Forge" about how the US armed up for WWII. I can also point you to some good economics textbooks about how WWII was financed. What this will convince you of is that it doesn't work that way. I have an emotional involvement in small family farming, but it doesn't blind me to the fact that agribusiness extracts tens of billions of tax dollars every year via crony insider deals. I'd sunset that as soon as I could if I were in charge. And while I sympathize with retired autoworkers I don't know why they got to raid taxpayer dollars to preserve their pensions while former Nortel and Comcast workers got thrown to the pension board. -XC