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For one thing, everyone in the West who's fallen on hard times has been pretty grateful their government didn't let them starve to death. This general, wide-im

• frankreyes 4y ago
  The US is the single largest food and energy producing country in the world. The US economy barely depends on exports to work and it's most important trading partners are the two neighbors, Mexico and Canada. Mexico for labor and Canada for fertilizer. There is no other country in the world with the relative and absolute advantages of the US. And that has nothing to do thanks to government, but instead despite government. In particular, the USA energy supply kept running of fossil fuels, which is the government just doing nothing. The USA is in a position to take a lot of bad choices and still have a great economy. The rest of the world only chance to have a good economy is to make good choices. The next possible country that had a proven track record of very bad choices and still working out is Argentina. Net positive Food and energy producer. And yes, they tried hard to f*k it.
  • flangola7 4y ago
    This still sounds like Reaganism "Government is the problem" rhetoric. Sum GDP is not a good measure of a country, particularly when it is concentrated in a very small group of people. If citizens (as carried out by their democratic representative government) give corporations an inch, they will take a hundred miles.