Actually, it is perhaps the most glaring symbol of American decline.... all these fancy, advanced, entrepreneurially savvy, highly educated, American states, count em, making most of their income by exporting not fancy technology items, but rather basic, idiot stupid, agrarian produce, to a big, dumb, even more backward third world country, just across the border... the most pathetic scenario one can possibly imagine really. Why would you do it unless you were desperate?
Krugman doesn't want to get into how that could possibly be, or how we could reverse this long term highly pathetic history of mostly agrarian exports. We have, singlehandedly, fed, literally, the growth of our competitors across the world.
Only fools like us would ever have wanted to integrate our auto industry with a place like Mexico, after the experience of Japan, and then the rest of Asia.
Why would you want to let poor, very numerous, foreign people learn to make and export your expensive industrial consumer products for you, while you mostly make and ship them their cheap agrarian staples?
Rather like voluntarily and cheaply feeding a hostile foreign army, ultimately. We actually still subsidize our farmers to do stuff like this, it seems.
What we are ultimately confronting, big picture, is a long 70 year slide into a self inflicted ad hoc Morgenthau Plan for America, the plan originally intended to agrarianize Nazi Germany after WWII.
Only fools like us would ever have wanted to integrate our auto industry with a place like Mexico, after the experience of Japan, and then the rest of Asia.
Why would you want to let poor, very numerous, foreign people learn to make and export your expensive industrial consumer products for you, while you mostly make and ship them their cheap agrarian staples?
Rather like voluntarily and cheaply feeding a hostile foreign army, ultimately. We actually still subsidize our farmers to do stuff like this, it seems.
What we are ultimately confronting, big picture, is a long 70 year slide into a self inflicted ad hoc Morgenthau Plan for America, the plan originally intended to agrarianize Nazi Germany after WWII.
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