What's the most vital industry for the US?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

I see some people essentially say that the US will be OK if the auto industry is OK, and not OK if the auto industry is not OK. Is that really true? Or is some other area of business equally or more critical?

[harun]

1. C'mon now, who picked Entertainment? lol

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. Where is defense on your poll?

Since it gets tons of money?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. I think of defense more as a liability than an industry. -nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. Oh, I agree but it is an economic engine that drives many communities

although it produces nothing of what I call real value. My community
would fall apart without it.

[ixion]

4. we managed w/o the auto industry for centuries

it would certainly mean a drastic change in lifestyle (some say for the best), but we can definitely survive without the auto industry. We can't survive without food production, and unless everyone becomes a farmer, we need a farming/food industry, even if it's localized.

That said, I think all industries are important to sustaining the population overall.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. I believe more people are employed in some way by 1. 'defense' and 2. auto industries.

[The2ndWheel]

7. The most vital would be the most basic, so I'd say food

Without agriculture, those other industries aren't possible.

[tavalon]

8. I read that as the most lively industry rather than necessary industry,

so my answer was going to be guns.

[Burma Jones]

9. There is no one most vital industry

Although no food would certainly be a very big problem........

[JackRiddler]

10. Making endless money out of compound interest paid to infinity.

Obviously.

[gravity]

11. banking

[Chemical Bill]

12. Water.

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