[bert]

We lived for maybe two hundred years with a trade deficit. We have been a nation of importers since before we were a nation.

You can’t see or won’t see that the past is gone. The world has changed and not like it was in your good old days.

You chose anomaly as the norm and erronously think the age of manufacturing with no competition is normal. Alvin Toffler described that condition as future shock.

I would suggest you buy and read Forbes from cover to cover every two weeks or perhaps read it on line. You will learn not only about the world but about the truly exciting things happening in the world of American business. The future depends on that which will be..... not that which was.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Horsefeathers!

America exported everything the world bought up until about 20 years ago.

Now we have completely spun around, and import mountains of stuff. We used to export strongly to everyone else.

Right back at ya...

[kabar]

We lived for maybe two hundred years with a trade deficit. We have been a nation of importers since before we were a nation.

Without doing a lot of research, we ran a trade surplus every year from 1960-70. We had trade surpluses in 1973 and 1975.

I bet we had plenty of trade surpluses during the post WWII years in the 1940s and 1950s.