Wrong. We use a lot more than 238.6 billion a month.
There is no reason we have to import that many products
That's en excellent idea. You could build a factory to make some of the stuff we currently import from China. Let me know when you start up, I'll be sure to throw some business your way.
You say the economy is 15 trillion .
Yes. There is a stat called Gross Domestic Product. You can look it up!
Actually they say consumer spending is the largest part of that 15 trillion
Well, you see, if you make a product (part of Gross Domestic Product) and consumers don't spend their money on it, you'll soon stop producing it.
The U.S. has almost every natural resource
Yes we do. And we need to make it easier to extract those resources.
and we were we above any country in technology and manufacturing a few decades ago.
Are you under the impression that we no longer manufacture in the US? What about the list of exports I so kindly provided to you?
The whole electronics industry
The whole industry?
You think a country can prosper if they don't and can't make these high tech products?
Where do you imagine I said that?
Wrong. We use a lot more than 238.6 billion a month.
No, that's just the price that retailers, distributors, wholesalers pay for the imported product. After the retail markeup the price Americans pay per months is closer to 1 trillion dollars per month. That is most of the stuff we use. Many times the retail markup is 3x times as much.
I am for border control. Putting restrictions on other countries whether it is people, substances (like illegal drug), or products that destroy our industries. That doesn't restrict your freedom but China's and Mexico's freedom to flood the U.S.A with immigrants and industry destroying products. Any product that is made in China can be made in the U.S.A.. but if you want to buy China stuff so badly then you can move there(see you are still free somewhat in the U.S.A although we all lost freedoms and that is because of growth of domestic government when your free trade was exploding , so all your free trade hasn't helped all the freedoms we have lost from a growing government inside the U.S.A.
All the money China is making is allowing them to buy our politicians, banks ,etc. They already have a lot of politicians in their pockets (didn't China donate to Clinton? no wonder that Clinton signed the China free trade deal which started America's decline) .soon china will take over the U.S.A without firing a shot.