[A. Pole]

The law of supply and demand cannot be conned. Americans will again learn to live within their means.

Or rather to live withing the means equalised with other countries (not Western European ones, since those did not embrace the free market fundamentalism yet).

[Gunslingr3]

Do you worry that you have nothing valuable to offer your fellow man in trade? Do you actually consider it the case that anything you can do I can hire an immigrant or someone overseas to do just as well, but cheaper?

[garbanzo]

not Western European ones, since those did not embrace the free market fundamentalism yet).

but they did embrace economic stagnation, declining birthrates, and massive unemployment, and spiralling public debt.