RSSRon, someday, I would like to shake your hand.
The minds you have helped to open to critical thinking, including mine, must be legion.
Live long and prosper.
Interesting comment.
But I think there are additional important factors.
Remember the US economy and ability to buy is boosted by the dollar being a reserve currency for the world, and the dollar being used for oil transactions. This can’t last and as the dollar falls the US will be less able to buy from the world. You also need to look at the continuing massive spending on the military industrial complex, again financed by the reserve dollar status… otherwise, where does the money come from?
Finally, (for now) but certainly not least, is the crumbling US infrastructure which has to be rebuilt; how will this be paid for? If at all.
And all this reflects on the devaluing of human capital in the US, poor education, for profit medical care, and massively inequality in income.
Corrupt government has many consequences, and it just is not responsive, fast enough, to the needs of the people.