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rudeboy, we are shooting and not hitting anything here...

Industrial output, as you state is one trillion a year... Great!! But there is also no denying that post 293 has a lot of merit here.

This trillion dollars is again, great! But the trade deficit takes away from this, which also cannot be denied...

[1rudeboy]

Exports equal approx. $1 trillion a year. That is not pocket change. And post #293 (I'll be generous . . . on second thought, I won't) has no merit because it is false.

In fact, it is such an elementary error (spoken with such authority), that it should be taken out back and buried before it begins to stink up the joint.