[A. Pole]

We retain a trade surplus in airplanes and airplane parts, but, because of the competition from Airbus, that is shrinking.

After airplanes, our No. 1 export in terms of a trade surplus is ... soybeans. Corn is next, followed by wheat, animal feeds, cotton, meat, metal ore, scrap, gold, hides and skins, pulp and waste paper, cigarettes, mineral fuels, rice, printed materials, coal, tobacco, crude fertilizer and glass. Airplanes aside, the United States has the export profile of an agricultural colony.

Free trade bump.

[Happy2BMe]

The future of America:

"Airplanes aside, the United States has the export profile of an agricultural colony."

Correction: A queer, godless agricultural colony with AIDS and the highest abortion rate in the world after China.

MAJOR IMPORTS: Marijuna, cocaine, heroine, AIDS, Mad Cow Disease, Bird Flu, and migrant workers and terrorism.

[Happy2BMe]

This article is RIGHT ON.

Can you think of anything but FOOD you have bought in terms of consumer goods (with few exceptions) that has NOT been IMPORTED?

[looscnnn]

"Airplanes aside, the United States has the export profile of an agricultural colony."

And yet those are the jobs that "Americans will not do".

[oceanview]

you forgot our major export: US JOBS.

[GOP_1900AD]

Once Boeing effectively relocates to the PRC this one will be even more under threat.... also, one thing Pat may have overlooked, is, the likelihood that our #1 export 20 years from now will be pornography! :(

[Clintonfatigued]

It sounds like America is dying of free trade. You have done an excellent job of pointing out what's happening to the country. Is there any feasible solution?