Then America is over.
We have crossed the rubicon. America now is number two in global exporting.
This happened very quickly, and the trend is strongly against America now.
China is rapidly building up a global military, and has approximately 5 TIMES AS MANY PEOPLE as America.
China does not trade the same way America does. China acquires... Manufactures and sells. All of it, just done by Chinese workers.
So what we are doing is giving China everything.
China now is leading. And rapidly gaining.
I know we haven’t thought this out, but the future is very, very dark for America without jobs.
America needs to return American factories.
Now.
You are making a political argument to override an economic process. It won't happen. We are driven by profit. The USA is now driven by benefits at someone else's expense. Over the long term decline is inevitable. We will not turn this trend around because the nanny state will not force children to become adults. In order to do this the govt will keep taking more and more from the productive till we end up like Europe, static economies with very little movement between economic classes.
I'm sorry if I seem so negative, but I don't believe the American people are willing to be personally responsible for their lives.