Loading ...You brought up some good points.
Re your: “You can drive another stake through the heart of the economy with those numbers”
In my view for decades of farming out all our work overseas, US businesses had to shut down, less taxes from the old profits, Which led to retarded wages, so less taxes from workers, plus more of them on welfare, and at the same time we were importing millions of people from high crime poor countries.
The USA in my area has pot holes everywhere. Plus I’m always hearing about we need affordable homes, affordable health care, etc etc etc. They NEVER say we need affordable jobs. The Minimum wage today adjusted for the 1960s, should be at least $50/hour. Even that is not so much only $2000 a week before taxes. But a higher flunky know nothing guy getting $50/hr would make all the smarter people get paid a lot more. US gov’t would not have a $39 trillion national debt now.
And if there is a WW III, there is not enough money here to pay for it.