[Superman]

Mr. Richards apparently shares my concern. America stays strong as long as ordinary Americans are at least minimally affluent consumers. Absent that, America probably crumbles. And quite frankly, America's international corporations don't necessarily have to care about that. Many of them would be (are) happy to prepare to shift their production and sales efforts elsewhere. There is legal and illegal. Good and bad. Right and wrong. Lucrative and non-lucrative. Commerce cares about the first pair and the last, and could give a flying you-know-what about the two middle pairs.