After reading the post about GapMinder.org I did some digging and since the 1990’s when the majority of the free trade agreements were passed the GDP of the United States has stagnated. Over a 20 year period from 1990 to 2010 the GDP of the USA has roughly doubled. In comparison, during that same time period the GDP of China has increased by a factor of 5. The thing is though, the GDP of both countries are similar. What is even more crazy is that in 1980 the US GDP was 3 times the size of our nearest competitors, Russia and Japan. Now don’t get me wrong Russia did suffer the collapse of the Soviet Union, but that is no excuse for America to have stopped being the economic leader of the world, It is time to make America great again.