We are a nation of producers. Consuming is downstream from producting.
“Our peaceful trading partners are not our enemies; they are our allies. We should beware of the demagogs who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends—weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag. The expansion of the international economy is not a foreign invasion; it is an American triumph, one we worked hard to achieve, and something central to our vision of a peaceful and prosperous world of freedom.”
Guess who said this.
True. Also, the service industry does not create wealth, it redistributes it.
The way to create wealth is to have something to sell to another country for a profit, thus bringing in more money. That was how we became so rich after WWII. We were the only industrial nation not bombed and wiped out, When the other countries started to rebuild, we were able to produce things they needed which created our wealth.