>America's economy was built for a post-WWII world with a levelled Europe and a still feudal Asia. It was never designed to compete with economies of nations with the equivalent tooling and production methods. That's why Japanese cars took massive shares of the automotive market seemingly overnight, it's why every automotive manufacturing job has been shipped to Mexico, it's why this country will continue to hemorrhage it's 20th century legacy and Americans will continue to look around puzzled.
No, Melvin. It's economy was not "designed", it was hijacked to benefit the Mil/Ind/Pharm/Tech/Finance by exploiting cheap labor overseas producing the products/process's/patents developed here. Silicone Valley?
Our nation was designed to be able to protect itself against this kind of exploitation but we got too complacent after WWII when we were (wrongly) convinced we'd made the world safe for "democracy".
Now the blinders are off and we have a painful bloody uphill slog to regain that which we let slip away. Saddle up, or go away.