“Your math is so laughably wrong, you must be the product of a failing public school.”
The U.S. does import almost 3 trillion $ of foreign products.
I used to work for a retailer in the purchasing dept.All the stuff we purchased was made in China.
Is some item was $3 then the retailer would mark it up to at least $6. But that was purchased from the distributor who did the importing from china and had their own markup.
So consumers are paying at least 6 trillion in products made in other countries. That's most of the stuff we use and is too much . We need to make things in the U.S.A again. And china needs to be stopped. Soon it will be all of the things we use ( you can see this if you look at any graph of the increase in imports).
China is the biggest threat we have . And other countries are imitating China in how China has ripped off the U.S.. If you look at the numbers, at how fast imports are growing and how much we import already anyone can see that soon everything we use (or almost everything) will be made in other countries. A country cannot survive like that . And that is sad considering we the U.S. was far above in technology , manufacturing just a few decades ago, before free trade especially with China and BJ Clinton's free trade agreement with china helped accelerate the destruction of America. Look at detroit to see a destroyed U.S. city when it was just a few decades ago the center of technology and manufacturing in the world.
Thanks, but I don't need any more proof of your bad math.
If you want to prove we don't manufacture anything anymore, go straight to the source.
Show how much we manufacture, don't try to derive it with your silly retailing stories.
U.S. Imports from World Total by 5-digit End-Use Code 2002 - 2011
Maybe you could use it to make your posts more factual?