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It's not meant in a bad way. It's just the concept is pretty funny IMO, and it's crazy USA did this in 1949, when many countries, even countries that weren't poor, were still rationing after WW2. My father was a child back then, and only 2 people in the small town he lived in had cars, and this is Denmark, we were not a poor country.
The US didn't have it's manufacturing plants bombed to ruble, in fact the US's manufacturing capacity grew enormously during the war, and it then suddenly had no war to supply so it could all suddenly be put toward building other things. This is one of the reasons why the US economy grew so much after the war.
Absolutely, nobody had production capability that came even close to USA.