[Gunslingr3]

It won’t even be able to afford imports. Which will be difficult since the US doesn’t make much anymore and relies on imports of Ch!nk crap.

This is a common misperception, because manufacturing has declined as a percentage of the employment pool, but the U.S. is still a major manufacturer, that manufactures more value than ever before. We just use way more robots than people to do it, and if it is cheap crap we let cheap labor overseas turn it out.

The U.S. is the second-largest exporter in the world, with an estimated $2.12 trillion in exports for 2020.

[Reverend Wright]

“The U.S. is the second-largest exporter in the world, with an estimated $2.12 trillion in exports for 2020.”

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That’s great except the USA is the number one importer by far, with a trillion dollar trade deficit per year.

[Brian Griffin]

“U.S. is still a major manufacturer, that manufactures more value than ever before”

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