John Gardner
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119 appearances
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 23 Jun
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And so that's the report from the trenches, Steve, up to the generals.
And the solution that I propose
has a historical foundation during World War II.
During World War II, we went from making 3,800 tanks in 1941 to 24,000 in 1942, 318 bombers to nearly 3,000 bombers in 1942.
This is all from Freedom's Forge and Arthur Herman.
One of the coolest things, folks on raw material, this is a great story, is Alcoa was America's sole aluminum producer in 1939.
It created a monopoly, no competition.
That's not capitalism.
What the government did is they created the Defense Plant Corporation.
It's called the DPC.
The government funded
And the capital engine for this was the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the RFC.
And they used a GoCo model, government-owned, contractor-operated.
And within the contracts was the government's going to break ground on this.
And they're going to use money with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation that's backed by citizen bonds, war bonds, and a taxpayer dollar.
And they're going to- the government-
It's going to break ground and use the Army Corps of Engineers and create these plants, and we're going to lease them to private contractors with the clause in the contracts that they will be sold at the end of the war to the private contractors.
And what this is broke up Alcoa's aluminum monopoly.
And up from World War II till 2000, America produced about 40% of the world's aluminum.
After that, now we produce about 2% of the world's aluminum, meaning we have a raw material problem.
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