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Everything that is built needs resources to be maintained. Ironically the US is extremely rich in a variety of resources. We, for example, are the "Saudi Arabia of coal", we have enough coal to power the US for the next 200 years if we were to use it. We also have tons of natural gas, oil, lumber, aluminum, chromium, titanium, steel, granite, manganese, iron, zinc, copper, gold, silver, uranium, plutonium, thorium, rare earth minerals... and we have a ton of rural land for all kinds of agriculture too. The biggest problem we have in America though? Corruption! We have politicians, bureaucrats and corporations that profit from international trade much more than they profit from domestic industry here. We also have a government that likes to strong-arm it's citizenry and keep us under their thumb too, which means the government wants the majority of Americans to remain poor and dependent on the welfare state, and workers who are having to pay off massive student loans while trying to keep up with price inflation. As long as we have this corruption our nation will be rich in resources but too impoverished and enslaved to use them to our own advantage which really is treacherous of our political leaders.