[DoughtyOne]

If we had any idea how much this guy, and even our own guys have cost our communities...

When the trade with China was causing about 3/4ths of a trillion dollars in trade deficits each year (or at least at that pace for a while), I used to think about what that meant to our communities.

When you start dividing $750 billion by a few thousand communities, you still come up with a very large sum. When you think about the multiplier effect on those sums, it’s even more impactful.

Still, people don’t give a rats hind end about it.

[Lurker]

It occurs to me that Agent Orange burns. I suggest around the clock application of Napalm to the area, preferably from the air so as not to endanger the clean up crews.

[Stonewall Jackson]

If you consider that the population of the United States is approximately 300,000,000 and you divide $750,000,000,000 by that number, you will find that our trade deficit with China is $2,500 for every man, woman, and child in the United States...each year!

What would our economy be like if we had that money, or even a significant percentage, here in the US instead of China?