The point of the article???? What is that, that the US is near collasps like the Soviet Union was???? OK, let's just ignore that our economy has been growing at about 4% for the last 3 years, we have had a very low 5.5% unemployment rate forever, we have low inflation and great interest rates, the stock market is doing better. Because some dork at the New York Times says we are gonna collasps does not make it a fact. We have had trade deficits my whole life and it really is not a huge negative the doomsayers have been saying for the past 30+ years.
Here is my reply to the substance of the article......BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The sun is shining and some fool says that it's dark and you expect us to take him seriously? It's not like the NYT doesn't print that the sky is falling every single day.
Why would any right thinking individual give the time of day to a rag that simply exists to provide liberals a forum?
You probably want us to also ignore that our Trade Deficit and National Debt have grown much faster than that, too.
I heard this same crap when Reagan was President. Nothing about the trade deficit while Billy Bob was President.
The latest on unemployment is actually 5.0% after July has added ~146,000 jobs to the economy. Also, the tax cut resulted in 14% increase in revenues and the deficit fell by $100 bln. That is on top of what you sais. We are definitely going down.