If U.S. workers are so productive then why does China make most of the consumer electronics in the world, most of the world's steel in tons? When 9 billion people in the world turn over their consumer products they see “Made in China”. We the U.S. can't even make our own consumer electronics much less those of the world.
The government has been huge for decades, government regulations have been onerous and numerous for decades . Yes that hurts the U.S. but as you can see from this graph it is only after Clinton signed the china free trade agreement and the U.S. started trading with China much more that the U.S. job creation and economy got annihilated:
