Savage also called autism a fad, so me thinks he's mildly fucking retarded at the least.
If you shut down border traffic, it causes more serious issues with international trade.
We fucked up, because our racism blinded us to the fact the smallportion of the planet economy, is our main source of primary goods.
You can't cut africa out of the loop.
It's the same reason subprime fucked everyone over.
A small powerless group of people can fuck you over, if you take them for granted.
Certainly no economics scholar, but shouldn't we be focusing more on the
powerful group that authorized the idiotic subprimes?
And, even then, the "predatory" greed angle doesn't really fly, as the banks themselves were pressured to sign off on highly risky loans they'd otherwise reject. Historic stats support this. This "Every American should own a home" nonsense, introduced by Clinton, continuing with Bush, more than likely fucked us over here.
So, far as I can tell, the small powerless group were simply enabled to fuck us over by the powerful.