Brain357
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- Mar 30, 2013
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What do you base that on. Again, tons of wealth and jobs. That’s the formula for good wages. If we had too much inflow we’d have high unemployment and certainly wouldn’t have labor shortages. Your claim is baseless. Learn some economics.That is an internal problem . We have the wealth and jobs. That wouldn’t change if we were isolated.We have the biggest economy in the world with the most wealth and we’ve had super low unemployment. Seems to be fine.Being isolated is bad for capitalism. Very bad .How do you mean? The USSR failed miserably. Pretty big country.Isolated countries fail economically.I'm 100% for it. Regardless we have to continue exports to maintain our status as world power, otherwise we'd give that status to China. If countries were to become isolated, then yes, no country would complete with the USA, we'd be set.
I think we should also end foreigners owning U.S. real estate. That said millennial's already screwed the pooch on that one. Many figured they were above property ownership. They didn't take into account they'll be paying the Chinese rent in the form of 5Kish by their 60th B-days.
To be fair, there has never been an isolated country on a scale of the US.
AND, as we seen to be destined to be fucked by any trading partner, isolation could be a competitive policy.
THe choice seems to be either be the world's bitch, or take our ball and go home.
Failed because they tried to have a big empire AND we fought them.
Not because they were isolated.
Being the world's bitch on trade, hasn't been that great either.
If only there was a third option. But there does not seem to be one.
No, we're not. Our middle class wages have stagnated and our middle class and lower class have lost faith in the future.
People are dying from this shit. To the point that our life expectancy is actually FALLING.
Good macro economic numbers have been hiding generations of pain.
Try to change policy.
It is not an internal problem. It is a problem caused by external trade and the inflow of labor.
Time to change policy.