> they are have the tools and expertise and they are not only deploying it locally they are exporting it to America What countries are you talking about? What

> they are have the tools and expertise and they are not only deploying it locally they are exporting it to America What countries are you talking about? What mythical poor countries have tools and expertise and what not? And to compete with us against what? We've moved to a global economy and basically doing what wealth of nation stated, we have specialize in things we do best while other countries specialize on their own thing. If Swiss and Japan wants to make awesome watch go for it. If labor is cheaper in China then okay. But they can't and have not taken higher end skill set. You just can't export those. And you just side step the world being screw to concentrate on our country. But at the same time OP addresses that with saving our coastal property. The mega cities that make a boat load of GDP is Los Angeles and NY which will be screwed with the rising sea water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_GDP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_GDP