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List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not counting tiny little countries packed with oil or gold or chocolate, the United States is the wealthiest MAJOR nation on Earth in GDP per capita. We are even wealthier per capita than --- wait for it, SAUDI ARABIA.
TRUMP IS WRONG ABOUT AMERICA.
The world is not taking advantage of us.
Free trade is working for us and to the advantage of average Americans. We pay less for goods and services than almost every other country. We eat well, and even the poor have too much food and losing weight is more of a problem then hunger.
China is not ripping us off. They are providing manufactured goods to us cheaper than we can make ourselves. If it were not for trade with China, we would pay more for almost everything they sell us, and we would have a lower standard of living.
Our system of alliances is not a rip-off for the United States. If these alliances were not in the American interest, past Presidents would not have spent valuable effort to enter into them. Even Obama has continued the policy of expanding our alliances, checking China in the Far East, for example, and Russia in Eastern Europe. Putin's brinkmanship is the military equivalent of erectile dysfunction. He is powerless to stop us from making friendships and alliances with former Soviet satellites.
People who live in small towns where factories have shut down have options. They can leave town and find jobs elsewhere. There is no economy that is not going to have pockets of dysfunction. But no one in America is required to stay in an economically dysfunctional location.
Ghost towns and boarded down mines and factories will happen in any kind of economy, and exist in every country in the world. Trump's attempt to use such places as proof that America is being taken advantage of is a lie.
Not counting tiny little countries packed with oil or gold or chocolate, the United States is the wealthiest MAJOR nation on Earth in GDP per capita. We are even wealthier per capita than --- wait for it, SAUDI ARABIA.
TRUMP IS WRONG ABOUT AMERICA.
The world is not taking advantage of us.
Free trade is working for us and to the advantage of average Americans. We pay less for goods and services than almost every other country. We eat well, and even the poor have too much food and losing weight is more of a problem then hunger.
China is not ripping us off. They are providing manufactured goods to us cheaper than we can make ourselves. If it were not for trade with China, we would pay more for almost everything they sell us, and we would have a lower standard of living.
Our system of alliances is not a rip-off for the United States. If these alliances were not in the American interest, past Presidents would not have spent valuable effort to enter into them. Even Obama has continued the policy of expanding our alliances, checking China in the Far East, for example, and Russia in Eastern Europe. Putin's brinkmanship is the military equivalent of erectile dysfunction. He is powerless to stop us from making friendships and alliances with former Soviet satellites.
People who live in small towns where factories have shut down have options. They can leave town and find jobs elsewhere. There is no economy that is not going to have pockets of dysfunction. But no one in America is required to stay in an economically dysfunctional location.
Ghost towns and boarded down mines and factories will happen in any kind of economy, and exist in every country in the world. Trump's attempt to use such places as proof that America is being taken advantage of is a lie.
