The US needs to start making and selling stuff overseas like crazy, even if this consists exclusively of affordable and desirable weapons (e.g. the F-22).
Unfortunately its major competitor in the undeclared war of Manufacture and Trade (the winner of which will always have the bigger empire) has a population which will always be able to undercut it for labour costs. Unless terrible decisions are made about just how much to pay people, and when to start taxing that income.
First into the asteroid belt is first to bring back essentially inexhaustible resources and have a licence to print money. Start building spaceships, Barack - start right now and don't stop until you have bases and refineries from Luna to Ganymede.
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Unfortunately its major competitor in the undeclared war of Manufacture and Trade (the winner of which will always have the bigger empire) has a population which will always be able to undercut it for labour costs. Unless terrible decisions are made about just how much to pay people, and when to start taxing that income.
First into the asteroid belt is first to bring back essentially inexhaustible resources and have a licence to print money. Start building spaceships, Barack - start right now and don't stop until you have bases and refineries from Luna to Ganymede.