On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 23:26:33 GMT, "CW" wrote:

That's a little remembered fact. We could do it again.

"Scott Lurndal" wrote in message
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I'll just point out that we didn't have that capacity in 1941, but
we did by 1945.

The US was a manfacturing based economy. Now, everyone seems
hell-bent on pretending we can get by with consumption as our
watchword. When you get an entire generation or two who think that
they are entitled to consume and feel no need to produce, it doesn't
create the kind of environment that allows a society to ratchet up
production that quickly. It's a different world now.