[Toddsterpatriot]

Yeah, I'm sure all our imports get a 200% markup.

Keep ignoring the over $3 trillion we manufacture every year.
It's been fun talking past you.
Good luck with that math class.

[rurgan]

Keep ignoring the over $3 trillion we manufacture every year

Even if true how long before that 3 trillion goes to China?

Not long. U.S. imported 3.86 billion $ worth of goods from China in 1985 now it’s 399 billion $ per year. That is 100 times the increase in imports in about 26 years(extrapolate that to the future).Why would anyone make anything in the U.S. if they have to pay their workers $20 an hour when they can pay them 50 cents an hour in China? How can any U.S. company compete with that ? U.S. companies have additional burdens like the EPA, thousands of U.S. government regulations, unions, lawsuits, democrats killing the energy industry like coal, oil etc.

http://www.statista.com/statistics/187675/volume-of-us-imports-of-trade-goods-from-china-since-1985/

[rurgan]

Real Americans can't find a job, going into debt, can't buy medicine etc. Others barely making it on 2 incomes (those that can find a job that is) Yes I blame China for a lot of that. Growth of China imports over 100 times what it was in 1985. So pretty soon we will lose everything if as you say we have $3 trillion left in manufacturing then we are looking over the cliff at the abyss , because we will lose that pretty soon.Keep in mind that it will only take 1/20th of that 3 trillion dollars in imported china goods to replace our 3 trillion because that is the rate that China has kept their currency undervalued and is the wage advantage that China has 20 times .