Keep in mind the “liberal give me’s” don’t really cost us that much, and they did not cause us to have a $22 trillion budget or trade deficit and 40 year decline in living standards.
All the masses of American consumers (not thinking) and retailers or stores gleefully buying and imports, (and vacationers spending overseas) has done all that damage.
In fact the way I see it, we have growing poverty right here in the USA the past 40 years. And the poverty in Africa, you can probably blame all that on Globalization too as per my 13:12 post.
Also in many backward countries they have too many kids making their countries even worse off. I remember we were encouraged to have only two kids. And what happened? We left room for illegal immigrants that like to have lots of kids.
I’m optimistic, (with caution) for the future, we paid. Hopefully they didn’t wait too long. In fact I think the Central Planners want to beef up the US economy simply because we ABSORBED so many poor immigrants here.
And when you think about it, the past history was always to help poor nations. and if all those poor are here, it makes sense to help them. So maybe the US natives will start benefiting along with the immigrants.