From the late 1800's to the early 1960's 50% of the world would import from Merica all kind of machinery. Industrial ,commercial, even smal goods, from a tuthbrush to a toy.Americans would import all of the agriculture goods.All over sudden America is impoting what they used to export.Does anybody knows why this is happenig

Yes Lotka, it is called the Bush Administration.

Education.

Yes, we grew up. We export ideas, technology, and the "Big Picture" stuff. We find it cheaper and enabling to our lesser neighbors to allow them to make these things for us. It takes some sophisticated thinking, but America is in a far better place now than we were in the 1800-1960s.The rest of the world wants OUR stuff, OUR ideas, OUR lifestyle, and we provide it - for a fair price.And like all free trade, when it's truly free, it is win-win-win.

Union's got to big, workers got lazy, US government imposed restrictions/regulations on US businesses that did not, do not apply to foreign industry. Cost of doing business in the US got high so companies moved their operations overseas where they could make products cheaper. Weak import laws.Any of many reasons.It is cheaper for a company to have someone in India as a phone solicitor for a Kansas City widow factory then to have a US citizen do it. Go figure.

This is called the age of mass consumption on Rostows Model of Development. At this stage most of the people are at service industry( ex. instead of making cars Selling them.) At this stage the people live high standard living. in the late 1800's to the early 1960's The US was in the drive to maturity stage which the stage before the age of mass consumption. the current economic problem is temporary and not applied in the model.

When you think you have a power and buy only bananas from those who are paying you millions for your products. people start seeing you like a thief and not like a smart gentleman.The America new generation follow and believe what the media says about the foreign industry, 'cheap labor' and yet pay for those cheap labor products a fortune...... ironic don't you think?

NAFTA; Globalisation; Cost of Living; Macro and Micro economics etc.

Apparently we're not exporting spellcheck any more. Lawyers and politicians are what happened. That and our expectation that everything will be just fine. Looking back at the time line you provided, it was before lawsuits tied up our courts and bankrupt mom and pop type businesses and before professional politicians put more money into their bank accounts than into the American economy.

American people wanted goods as cheaply as possible so they had to be made in China where labour costs were low. China's exports made it richer.Futhermore, some stupid Americans invented the celebrity and media who promoted unintelligence so most Americans became unintelligent.Because of this, unintelligent Americans thought they could be in the same job for life but in reality, once manufacturing jobs left the US, Americans had to retrain but because they were stupid, reasons highlighted above, they thought striking would save their jobs and that they could stay in those jobs. This made it even easier for industry to move to China and India but if Americans realised what was happening they could have stopped it by retraining it to jobs for newer high-tech industry, making robots.Robots work for nothing, and they are easier to operate to sustain workers and keep jobs in the US. However, Americans are selfish so they do not want unattractive jobs, in other countries like Japan, they have honour and realise that they will have to sacrifice to prosper. However, selfish Americans wanted products as cheap as possible. So Americans if you want someone to blame, blame yourselves, it your fault!