Bonus Quotation of the Day…

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… is from this excellent new essay, at National Review, by the businessman Neal B. Freeman:

You hear it said frequently that we Americans don’t make things anymore. While it’s true that we don’t make many of the things you see around the house – plastic flatware, keychains, underwear, sparklers – we make many of the things that are harder to make and that create more economic value – computer software, rockets, semiconductors, medical devices. And we make a lot of them. Of the 195 countries doing or trying to do business internationally, the U.S. manufactures and sells more products than all but one of them – China, which has a population four times larger than ours.