This item circulated in the run-up to the 2012 elections, but I can't remember if I posted it back then. The numbers below are at least approximately correct. Clearly it's not an apples-to-apples comparison, though: the existential threat posed to the U.S. by Nazi Germany and Tojo's Japan was a very different challenge than the healthcare problems that ObamaCare seeks to solve. However, the point about the Obama administration's competence is right on target...
During the 3-1/2 years of World War 2 that started with the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and ended with the Surrender of Germany and Japan in 1945, the United States produced 22 aircraft carriers, 8 battleships, 48 cruisers, 349 destroyers, 420 destroyer escorts, 203 submarines, 34 million tons of merchant ships, 100,000 fighter aircraft, 98,000 bombers, 24,000 transport aircraft, 58,000 training aircraft, 93,000 tanks, 257,000 artillery pieces, 105,000 mortars, 3,000,000 machine guns, and 2,500,000 military trucks.Via Doug S., friend, former colleague, and Idaho-mogul-of-everything. And he's not so very far from our new home!
We put 16.1 million men in uniform in the various armed services, invaded Africa, invaded Sicily and Italy, won the battle for the Atlantic, planned and executed D-Day, marched across the Pacific and Europe, developed the atomic bomb and ultimately conquered Japan and Germany.
It's worth noting, that during the almost exact same amount of time, the Obama administration couldn't build a functioning web site.
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