I am pretty sure he wants us to sell more internationally than we purchase.
Which is again fair enough, but that's also a zero sum game. Which countries are going to always buy more than they sell to even things out? That hasn't been working out great for the Americans lately.
Exports are all well and good, but not every country can be a net exporter. (Unless we start exports to Mars, as I mentioned above)
China has lots of money. Maybe we should take a page from British history and try to get the Chinese population addicted to opium again. It reversed the massive trade deficit with China last time.
(Since we don't control the opium production we either need a free trade agreement with Afghanistan or we need to make BC bud highly addictive.)
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China has lots of money. Maybe we should take a page from British history and try to get the Chinese population addicted to opium again. It reversed the massive trade deficit with China last time.
(Since we don't control the opium production we either need a free trade agreement with Afghanistan or we need to make BC bud highly addictive.)
There are lots of shipping containers going back to China empty...
Part of the problem I think for youth is that the process of obtaining valuable qualifications is now much longer than it was before. A university degree (even a high school degree) is worth much less now than it was 30 years ago and you have no distinction unless you do a professional degree or do higher graduate studies, so the process of obtaining qualifications that are going to give you some distinction and earn you some dosh is much longer than it used to be for many. 30 really is the new 20 for many.
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There are lots of shipping containers going back to China empty...
