… because we wanted them to be rich and prosperous, because they were our allies in the Cold War. But now that has to change. You look at the European Union, The European Union's economy is about the same size as ours. That's not a low wage economy. It's very comparable to ours in terms of its composition and so forth. Why do they have a trade surplus with us? (05:08–05:12)
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Asserts that the European Union's economy is comparable in size to the US economy.
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