Does a serious nation run a $850 billion dollar capital account surplus? You do realize that in recent history our trade deficit narrows only during economic downturns. The last trade surplus we had was during a recession.
As for exporting all our manufacturing....Did you miss this discussion?
The slight increase left orders at a seasonally adjusted $399.9 billion in May.
Annualized, that is $4.8 trillion a year in manufactured goods. Our manufacturing sector alone is larger than the total GDP of every other country, except Japan ($5.1 trillion) and with our solid GDP growth we'll surpass them very soon. You see, Japan's economy has been sucking wind for more than 15 years now.....but they do have a trade surplus! LOL!!
Please do not use facts, we only need emotional outbursts here :)