From a thread down: "Just to name a few of the things we are producing in Ohio..."

Yes, but in this worldwide recession, people only buy things that they need. Those things you mentioned are all advanced (want, not need) products, which has dropped severely in demand. Things we need (oil, cheap stuff, cheap services) are mostly manufactured by other countries.

I'm not being facetious; read 'the walmart effect' on how walmart has encouraged the dismantling of our manufacturing sector. So what else do we produce? remember that we get our oil from middle east, our manufactured goods from Asia, our commodities from South America, cheap services from India, etc. Our GDP in the last several years were largely propped up by financial/construction sectors growth, which has mostly disappeared now.