### Comment:
The trade imbalance is mostly due to the US moving away from manufacturing to services. Manufacturing is now less than 10% of the overall economy (also lower than it has been in the lastly century).  
  
 Again Trump is an idiot!

### REPLY:
You don't think that's in any way the result of foreign tariffs which make it hard to compete in foreign markets? It seems like were kind of subsiding the welfare state of other countries.

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