[Toddsterpatriot]

A trade deficit is a calculation of the difference between the goods and services Americans sell to foreigners and the goods and services that Americans purchase from foreigners

So that blather about Americans don't make anything and nobody buys American stuff was just a load of BS? Thanks for clearing that up, but I already knew it was BS.

[SandyB]

Our trade deficit is 3/4 of a trillion dollars a year, and growing, with no hope of building factories in america to produce things that people in other countries might want. If (foreign) people wanted american made goods, we would not have a 3/4 of a trillion dollar trade deficit.

[jpsb]

"So that blather about Americans don't make anything and nobody buys American stuff was just a load of BS?"

Other then Boeing aircraft, most of the stuff we make that fuels exports is food and food products, parts to be reimported after overseas assembly and lastly a big hit, disasemblied American factories (machines) to be sent overseas to make there what we once made here.