The rest of the world has helped absorb the dollars created by the US inflationary fiscal policies over the years. I'd say that's abusive. It may also help explain the "trade deficit" people worry about so much. The MAGA loyalists have abandoned all pretense of free market econo.ics for rabid nationalism, and people like me will suffer. My usual dairy alternative cheese is from Canada. My Raspberry Pi computers are from England. My boots are from South Africa. A lot of tabletop games are from all over Europe. Trump's ignorance has somehow bamboozled much of America, though. They think he is a wise leader. And the sad part is, he still may have been the lesser of two evils in November.
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The trade deficit one is a funny condition, isn't it? The US is the world's largest consumer, doesn't it make sense that they are in deficit to most countries? They set it up this way - to live in deficit to be able to consume and control from that position.
The US today is built on debt. The bubble must burst eventually. The US could be an agricultural and industrial powerhouse again, but regulatory capture and taxation have killed a lot of entrepreneurial activity and competition here to concentrate wealth in the hands of politically-connected megacorporations while bailouts protect them from the failures of bureaucracy within.