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Originally Posted by jaydee
depends on its imports and exports
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uh, trade is a two-way street...by its very nature. USA depends just as much on other countries importing and exporting as they do on the USA.
As for charity, while beggars definitely appreciate the handouts, they don't then have to like the person doing the handout if they then start telling them how to run their life, takes huge portions of their land, strip-mine and pollute it to hell and back (Union Carbide anyone) and then walk away.
As happens so, so often, USA is NEVER losing when it gives charity, it is typically repayed through various USA companies exploitation of that country's natural resources one hundred times over.
More often than not, USA charity amounts to distracting the hungry beggar at the front door of their shanty by handing out some food, all while 'round back they've breaking in and looting the beggar of what little possessions he has left.