[Toddsterpatriot]

7 trillion in debt and 500 billion annual deficit comes actually from importing everything, not producing it. Barring the non-producing service sector and the building industry, pretty much everything else is imported.

So, we import everything and export little pieces of green paper. Useless for anything except buying stuff. So who gets the short end of that stick? Us? We get cars and stereos and stuff from WalMart.

If they just keep the pieces of paper, we can keep that cycle going forever.

[CrucifiedTruth]

So, we import everything and export little pieces of green paper. Useless for anything except buying stuff. So who gets the short end of that stick? Us? We get cars and stereos and stuff from WalMart.

You need to brush up on that 'economics' thing... We get a few things that end up in the landfills pretty soon. They get
1. Manufacturing plants
2. Knowhow
3. Engineering experience and incentives
4. Employment and financing for their own scientific research
5. Business infrastructure
6. Military use of the obtained technology
7. Political leverage over the US.
8. Weakening of the US economy by extracting the production capabilities out of it. .
9. The interest on those "little pieces of green paper" that you have no idea about