Michael Busler, I am thankful to the number of responders to your piece, who have taken time to point out your lack of understanding of trade. I assume that you are not teaching the subject.

One very basic reality of trade is that it does not have to be balanced to be beneficial to each party.

If I buy meat from the hunter, but he does not want to buy my vegetables, I am better off, because my family can now enjoy a balanced meal and the hunter has at least an IOU from me that he can use to buy perhaps a pan from the tinker. The tinker may like vegetables. We are all better off.

There is really no downside to trade, and that is something, you apparently, Donald, Bernie, (probably) Elizabeth and many others need to grasp.

I mean to be helpful.