[nanak]

....and a nation's economy dependent on DEBT, Walmart, McDonald's , Sam's Club is unsustainable.

For how long we will keep consuming and will keep sending our manufacturing overseas.

Where goes the manufacturing, there goes the RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT.

It is a race towards the bottom.

[1rudeboy]

Race to the bottom. Right.

[TopQuark]

You have serious misconception about the facts:

and a nation's economy dependent on DEBT, Walmart, McDonald's , Sam's Club is unsustainable. Where do you see "dependence" of a trillion dollar economy on these companies?

For how long we will keep consuming and will keep sending our manufacturing overseas.

This is like asking, for how long will we be breathing air and still continuing to eat?

Where goes the manufacturing, there goes the RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT.

Could you please show the empirical evidence for that statement?