Who Is We?

Here's a letter to one of my favorite radio personalities:

Mr. Tony Kornheiser
The Tony Kornheiser Show

Dear Mr. Kornheiser:

Your show is great.  And while I realize that your chief goal is to be humorous, your monologue yesterday – lamenting that "we Americans don't make things any more" and filled with genuine worry about America being largely a service economy – demands a response.

First, it's untrue that Americans "don't make things any more."  If you go to