I agree with you, Walmart pushed EtchoSketch to move to China to make the product cheaper, cost Ohio 300 jobs at $15 per hour. So Washington over these many decades along with wall st. share some of the blame for all of this.
GDP is still #1 by far.
GDP per capita is correct and then US is only number 9. US lost 8 places since 1960.
No he doesn't. He only says he does, puts on a good show, and the suckers believe him. Still waiting for Mexico to pay for that Wall. Still waiting for the Wall. He promised to deport illegal immigrants. Easily done because Obama had already done it! Promised to replace Obama care with Something Wonderful. Still waiting for the Wonderful part. You suckers are about to find out he's not even competent at his specialties: lying, cheating, stealing, money laundering, tax evasion, and extortion. The only thing he's got right so far is when he assured us that the election was rigged. And you can't even give him credit for that because he was cheating. He had inside information.Even the lefty media agrees that Trump keeps his campaign promises.
No he doesn't. He only says he does, puts on a good show, and the suckers believe him. Still waiting for Mexico to pay for that Wall. Still waiting for the Wall. He promised to deport illegal immigrants. Easily done because Obama had already done it! Promised to replace Obama care with Something Wonderful. Still waiting for the Wonderful part. He's not even competent at his specialties: lying, cheating stealing, money laundering, tax evasion, and extortion, as you suckers are about to find out.
Fake argument. You cannot compare 52 states together with a population of +250 million people with countries 5-10 times smaller.
GDP per capita is correct and then US is only number 9. US lost 8 places since 1960.
Are we funding these companies to grow then creating an environment for them to get more equity through stock offerings to further reduce our economic position in the world?

I thought we were talking about 'superpower'... in which case the GDP sum trumps per capita... otherwise the former soviet union would never qualify as a superpower.
And for that matter China would not qualify today either.... but in reality China IS considered a super power today, while it's per capita is only ranked around 100th place in the world.
No he doesn't. He only says he does, puts on a good show, and the suckers believe him. Still waiting for Mexico to pay for that Wall. Still waiting for the Wall. He promised to deport illegal immigrants. Easily done because Obama had already done it! Promised to replace Obama care with Something Wonderful. Still waiting for the Wonderful part. You suckers are about to find out he's not even competent at his specialties: lying, cheating, stealing, money laundering, tax evasion, and extortion.
What's the definition of "superpower"? I did not see this word anywhere in the thread.
Between 1960 and 2016 the GDP in the US went up 1900%, China went in the same period up 9076% (76 th place, not 100th). At this speed they will soon jump over the US.
It is funny to see how a mouse (China) can make a giant (USA) so nervous...