I got that exporting statistic from here:

http://www.worldsrichestcountries.com/top_us_exports.html

It doesn't list weapons as a category, but the #1 export is "Machines and Engines", which I guess could include weapons.

Here's an interesting article about US Automobile exports:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732457790457855993396...

What's so interesting is that it says that Honda actually builds more cars here and exports them than they import to us from their Japanese factories. Which is odd, to me at least, that Honda would be considered a "domestic" auto company at this point. I was told when I bought my foreign-branded car that it was more American-made than most Fords at this point. I guess that's globalization.

I was curious as to where in the US those Honda factories were, so I looked it up:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Honda_assembly_plants

I see Alabama and Indiana, which are not very union-friendly states, and Ohio, which I'm not sure about. I suspect that the workers at those plants have non-specialized skills. I'll bet that they are only slightly harder to train and replace than a retail employee at this point, thanks to automation. The only high-skilled workers are the engineers and computer types who make the machines hum, and those people need degrees in those fields. Of course, that's just my opinion.

The Rethuglican Party also kills people another way in the health industry. THIRTY YEARS NOW and still no investigative reporter has gone through this can of worms!

THINK the WAR on WOMEN hasn’t killed too many ???Our Government & MANY private individuals funded Big pHARMA to CURE AIDS. Much money was spent on research but NOT TESTED on WOMEN! NO medicines were tested on women for about ten years of copious input of funds. More WOMEN died from AIDS than Men in WAR 1984-2010 RIP*** see below re: reporting.

So if you see social problems like abortion issues where some people want to control OTHER PEOPLES lives, through sex, power over not power WITH, along racial lines, along economic lines, by politics ! then /always /NOW --- >>>EDUCATION is the answer!

MANY people ARE informed, especially fertile women who want to sanely protect themselves from internal damage due to birth control hormones. NO educated person WANTS to be PREGNANT right now once aware of GMO corrupted food substitutes, gene damaging radiation, controlling clergy, nasty politicians, no steady jobs and then add in climate change and water shortages!

Invented in 1984 -- Let's manufacture in 2014 !

WOMEN can create cultural breakthrough about the red-taped GREAT BARRIER Brief system in news, on every media channel, tweets , television, social media, dating sites, public service announcements etc.

DE-Regulate Prevention Barrier Methods

Due to FDA / NIH /pharmaceutical regulations, a group of barrier method latex devices have been unused in the fight against AIDS, STD's and also unwanted conception. There are still no barrier methods available for herpes and genital warts, which happen OUTSIDE the area covered by male condoms.

One of these latex barriers got a National Institute of Health grant during Clinton administration, and can be seen online www. JANESWAY.net This panty condom is both contraceptive and a prophylactic /disease preventive. REARGUARD Anal protection has never even had any newspaper article written about it...

This situation must be clear to media and public alike!

No media in the USA including NY Times Washington Post SF Chronicle have said a word about this, though all been asked to address this situation numerous times since 1984. Most media have advertising contracts with Big pHARMA corpse-porations that prohibit bad press.... thus no articles about womens needs, unmet! It would be bad for BUSINESS.

The plan of the small group of women still involved is to organize licensed collectives worldwide run by trained volunteers. The volunteers would be given latex barriers for their own use and to give away or sell for no more than 2% MARKUP or two PENNYs per barrier over costs. So each ordinary person volunteering becomes a self-designated distributor. Any collective licensed and using the manufacturing standards could ship worldwide. No corporations would be licensed to avoid profit making in reproductive health worldwide by NON-HUMAN entities. Sponsored /lowered costs would help lower birth rates worldwide.

Thanks to all and hope this information reaches the public.

signed by C.j Hunnicutt

FACTS today: Men have no options, women have no protection. Talk about this. Tell each other. and then ? We make them OURSELVES and we share them with those we love. No corporate mark-up on our privates..... latex is 4th MOST RENEWABLE RESOURCE on GAIA our living earth. Quote Gilda Radner /Roseanne Rosannedanna :

"Why do they call them PRIVATES if it's everybody else's BUSINESS???? "

SEE the GREAT BARRIER Brief red-taped, regulation raped, and hidden in plain site (sic) >>~~~>> awkward old tech http://janesway.net/FutureStyles/index.html

It got a National Institute of HEALTH GRANT during Clinton Administration. Then BUSH administration issued the GAG RULE on day ONE of the reign of repugs and millions of women died around the world.

Basic facts: Women still have NO PROTECTION beyond talking men into male condoms, so…. once people know about this coverup, talk about a BRIDGE SCANDAL???? We organize and create licensed COLLECTIVES and make our protections ourselves. There's REARGUARD Anal latex/silicone protection too but no online info available.

NOTE: on LATEX = 4th most renewable substance on earth.

EVERYONE deserves protection. We give latex protection to those we love. No corporate licenses to manufacture will be issued, to avoid others making profits from women /sex!!!

No more corporate mark-up on our private lives!!!

For the 7 generations,

Fern Fedora = spokesperson for GREAT BARRIER Brief, aka JANESWAY Panty Condom.

Liason contact for REARGUARD Anal Condoms.

*** NIH STATISTICS are predicated on WHO SURVIVES with CERTAIN MEDICATIONS in a CLINCIAL STUDY. They do not tally doctors reports at all. THEREFORE it's nearly impossible to tell how many women had it and died, uncounted nor increase in how many children in California schools w/no mother. Women get all STD 20 to 200 times easier than men!

PS MEDIA and RESEARCH persons: Please contact me if you don't understand that the centre 4 dis-ease OBSERVATION does not control disease. The reporting changed, so no actual women's deaths are reported UNLESS they are using some HIV medicine IN a STUDY. So the statistics look like "GAY MEN" caused this problem, fueling haters everyday, and the women continue to die..... uncounted.

PLEASE help get this to women everywhere…. If you can form /fund a collective to manufacture these, Fern can help you with the license to begin. Each person chooses their own level of participation. Example: A real estate agent rents an old dental laboratory, and a builder remodels it for required Good Manufacturing standards. Their good deeds for the community serve as marketing for their own enterprises, as the community organizes around the collective efforts. Any concerned citizens purchase equipment and donate it, while some use their volunteer status to provide prevention education. Each volunteer becomes a self-directed distributor of education and prevention. Mark-up is 2% MAXIMUM.

WHO CAN HELP do this on other continents?

WOMEN On EARTH TODAY need to know that they can begin making protection themselves! VERY LOW disease and unplanned pregnancy when used. MAKE it LOCAL, use it local.

Invented in 1984 -- Let's manufacture in 2014 !

NOW maybe we all see this perfect example of the Permaculture principle: The PROBLEM is the SOLUTION......!

What caused the problem? Political power/corporate greed/chemical rape via poison medicines.

Without the PROBLEM, what IS THERE is the solution!

We can make practical private local-made /homemade protection.

Invented in 1984 -- Let's manufacture in 2014 !

BACKGROUND

If you are reading this document, please share it with all women, clubs, groups, and get it into articles, think up new ways to CRACK the LIES so truth and light will shine through. Let's do it OURSELVES!

Thanks from the seven generations!

I never thought of it that way, Thom. Death panels are real, but they're Republican! What a mind blower...

Matt, how can we be the #2 exporter of goods when U.S. manufacturing is dead? Last I heard, though, our country was the #1 exporter of WEAPONS. For our Great American Death Merchants, business is always booming; life is just one big gravy train for them!

Please don't interpret this as a rebuttal. I like your comments about what to do about tariffs, etc. I'm just questioning the information you found online. - AIW

Kend- For the THIRD time, I'm posting this in your honor:

An article by Physicians For A National Health Care Program

"Medicare for All" would cover everyone, save billions in first year: new study wrote: Upgrading the nation’s Medicare program and expanding it to cover people of all ages would yield more than a half-trillion dollars in efficiency savings in its first year of operation, enough to pay for high-quality, comprehensive health benefits for all residents of the United States at a lower cost to most individuals, families and businesses.

That’s the chief finding of a new fiscal study by Gerald Friedman, a professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. There would even be money left over to help pay down the national debt, he said.

"Medicare for All" would cover everyone, save billions in first year: new study wrote: Friedman says his analysis shows that a nonprofit single-payer system based on the principles of the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act, H.R. 676, introduced by Rep. John Conyers Jr., D-Mich., and co-sponsored by 45 other lawmakers, would save an estimated $592 billion in 2014. That would be more than enough to cover all 44 million people the government estimates will be uninsured in that year and to upgrade benefits for everyone else.

“No other plan can achieve this magnitude of savings on health care,” Friedman said.

"Medicare for All" would cover everyone, save billions in first year: new study wrote: “These savings would be more than enough to fund $343 billion in improvements to our health system, including the achievement of truly universal coverage, improved benefits, and the elimination of premiums, co-payments and deductibles, which are major barriers to people seeking care,” he said.

"Medicare for All" would cover everyone, save billions in first year: new study wrote: Over the next decade, the system’s savings from reduced health inflation (“bending the cost curve”), thanks to cost-control methods such as negotiated fees, lump-sum payments to hospitals, and capital planning, would amount to an estimated $1.8 trillion.

"Medicare for All" would cover everyone, save billions in first year: new study wrote: Friedman said the plan would be funded by maintaining current federal revenues for health care and imposing new, modest tax increases on very high income earners. It would also be funded by a small increase in payroll taxes on employers, who would no longer pay health insurance premiums, and a new, very small tax on stock and bond transactions.

“Such a financing scheme would vastly simplify how the nation pays for care, restore free choice of physician, guarantee all necessary medical care, improve patient health and, because it would be financed by a program of progressive taxation, result in 95 percent of all U.S. households saving money,” Friedman said.

Friedman’s findings are consistent with other research showing large savings from a single-payer plan. Single-payer fiscal studies by other economists, such as Kenneth E. Thorpe (2005), have arrived at similar conclusions, as have studies conducted by the Congressional Budget Office and the General Accountability Office in the early 1990s. Other studies have documented the administrative efficiency and other benefits of Canada’s single-payer system in comparison with the current U.S. system.

Friedman’s research was commissioned by Physicians for a National Health Program, a nonprofit research and educational organization of more than 18,000 doctors nationwide, which wanted to find out how much a single-payer system would cost today and how it could be financed.

When it comes to healthcare, Kend, I'm not taking "No" for an answer; not from you, not from any other of the many naysayers "out there"!

Before I go, I can't resist pointing out, your posts on this thread provide yet another classic example of why Marc and I are so frustrated with bloggers like yourself. You keep asking the same clueless questions over and over. Makes no difference when we provide answers to your questions because they never seem to sink in; you'll ask those questions again, ignoring the answers. Sure does get old... - Aliceinwonderland

Sorry I thought the federal government ran the VA. Of course they don't if they did it would be perfect. More money? Sorry to break it to you but we pour the money into our single payer system and it still sucks.

Health care is very expensive DAnne no where in the world can anyone afford to provide good health care for everyone. All we can do is the best we can with The little we have.

AIW ~ You are so cool! Right on!! You Rock!!!

You have death panels now they are at the VA. Government run health care Here it comes.

I thought there was 40 million without health care. How come only 8 million more receive coverage. If you only added 8 million why didn't you just change the old system a little bit. What a mess. Honestly my heart goes out to you guys down there. Good luck I hope you get it straighted out fast before more pass away.

Thom, you've just brought up one of my favorite topics: death panels!

All the hypocrisy revolving around this issue is simply breathtaking. We have death panels already and they're called "health insurance" companies! ("GOP Death Panels" is an apt enough description!) Yet these nay-saying enemies of public health use the "death panel" argument against government-run healthcare. And it makes me friggin' CRAZY.

How many grandmas have these bastards pulled the plug on already?! Not to mention grandkids not blessed with perfect health at birth. These health-scare extortionists are among the most disgusting, evil examples of capitalism in the extreme. They are killing nearly fifty thousand of us each year. Yet even some of those adversely affected and put at risk are among the first to defend the status quo, using that idiotic "government death panel" argument.

The righties are always so quick to sanctimoniously declare themselves "pro-life" when in fact, they really don't give a flip who lives and who dies. This can be argued from multiple angles: pay-or-die healthcare, frivolous, unnecessary wars, murder-by-drone, hit lists, austerity, FDA negligence, etc. etc. etc. HELLO.

The fact that anyone can be "too poor" to qualify for free or subsidized health "insurance" on the Obamacare exchanges is yet another argument for scrapping Obamacare and replacing it with single payer, which we should have done in the first place, back in 2009. Imagine how many people would still be alive today, had these so-called "public servants" truly served the interests of the public!

Talk about crazy-making! AAAARGHH!!!!! - Aliceinwonderland

We must have been typing at the same time. I wasn't implying that you were paranoid/crazy about computers and banking Alice. I, too, have my worries about them.

Ck, I want nothing to do with online (aka "computer") banking. Computers will never be hack-proof, which is why I don't feel safe with online banking. I'll take the old-fashioned bricks & mortar any ole day!! - AIW

Chi Matt -- First thanks for not leaving. When you stopped commenting for a few days, hardly anyone commented. Now, back to the debate.

No problem. I wonder how long this thread will get before Thom takes notice. I like to think I'm doing my part by being the opposition voice (sort of, I don't oppose everything.) Thom - I will send you my bill for helping drive up your hit counter.

Because we buy most everything from overseas, I would recommend raising the tariffs a little each year.