Neither did you. Why aren't Japan's and Germany's economic performance better than ours over the last 2 decades? They have a surplus.
Oh, so chucking the Constitution
But we didn't chuck the Constitution.
is somehow made all better by a modest increment in exports..
Modest? Exports to Mexico better than tripled since NAFTA. Exports to Canada more than doubled.
which is overwhelmed by a flood tide of imports that saps and hollows out our industrial infrastructure
That's right, we don't manufacture anything. LOL!
leaving with us (and I do mean "us" advisedly) what? Paper currency?
When we import, the other party gets the paper currency.
“Modest? Exports to Mexico better than tripled since NAFTA. Exports to Canada more than doubled.”
Jeesh. I see your confusing exports with imports again. No wonder you think Nafta is great. One more time now remember. Imports are what we buy and exports are what we sell.
(Our imports from Mexico increased from $39 billion in 1993 to $198 billion in 2007).