How bad of shape has the US become?

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(02-24-2016, 06:57 PM)Yojimbo Wrote: The United States is in a downward spiral due to bad trade deals that have killed American manufacturing and the American middle class. Until those bad deals are changed and it becomes unprofitable to manufacture overseas and bring the goods back on the cheap, the economy will continue to be weak.

Yup.  I would add in an ever declining focus on education, but that has been 30 years in the making at least.  

Unfortunately, by the time those trade deals are changed and the manufacturing jobs are brought back to the states, only thing worth manufacturing will be the 1st set of manufacturing robots.  Once they start manufacturing themselves, we're ******.