The entire country has lost TRILLIONS of US Dollars, sent overseas, for the greater good of their “baby” the global Commune-ity. $50 billion with just little Columbia in one year. This enormous loss is why the we had that so called great recession.
The above is ALSO why TPTB are scrambling to get the US economy and wages higher. Without us, the global commune-ity gets less. But they probably don’t even need us anymore anyway. They have been crying poverty with a “loaf under each arm”.
Like a blood transfusion that went too FAR, and America is anemic, but maybe getting better.