[jpsb]

I think making stuff here is the way to address our trade imbalance. Selling a valuable finite resource to foreigners does not strike me as a good idea. That is what third world countries do. They sell natural resources so they can afford to buy manufactured goods. But then we are just about a third world country thanks to our insane trade policy so no doubt we will sell off what is left of our natural gas, coal and oil to first world countries in short order.

[Elderberry]

I think making stuff here is the way to address our trade imbalance. Selling a valuable finite resource to foreigners does not strike me as a good idea.

Make stuff and sell overseas?

Out of what?

Iron? And deplete our finite resource?

Plastic? And deplete our oil.

Aluminum? With what energy source for all that required electricity? Oil? More depletion.

We live in a finite world, so I've been told.