We are seeing what happens ever since 2008. Look at all the hot spots and financial problems around the world. All because the US consumer failed in 2008, stopped paying off loans. “Cash for clunkers” to buy imports was a last gasp.
Believe it or not, the world gov’t is really trying to restore the USA for a future “harvest”. The USA is the “crop” that the rest lived off of. They kept us on artificial life support starting in ’75 and kept it up to the LAST minute. The crash in ’08.