Go to Wal-Mart and look at the labels.....on every
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It's not just about consumption, it's about markets for what we still can sell.
Do you want to cede the commercial aircraft business, Boeing, to Airbus?
Chinese love Buicks. Zhou Enlai collected them.
And of course there are the military sales from companies that employ 10's of thousands.
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Arms sales by the U.S. jumped 35 percent, or nearly $10 billion, to $36.2 billion in 2014, according to the Congressional Research Service report, which analyzed the global arms market between 2007 and 2014.
Trailing the U.S. in weapons receipts is Russia, with $10.2 billion in sales in 2014, followed by Sweden with $5.5 billion, France with $4.4 billion and China with $2.2 billion, reports The New York Times.

