Consumers

For the first time in history, the world is facing a demographic inversion. Within 50 years the population will begin to decrease. Many countries are already facing serious population declines especially in the youth. Young people are not only the producers but the consumers of goods. Countries like South Korea and China have highly efficient manufacturing systems but they lack consumers. They produce far more than they consume and thus are heavily reliant on exports and foreign consumers. This puts the United States in the cat bird seat since the US has the largest consumer market in the world. Trump uses this fact as a bargaining tool to put America first. By using tariffs, he forces other countries to bring their production to the US in order to have access to the American consumer. Thus, other countries are planning on investing trillions in the US. Countries like Japan have come to realize that they have such an aging population that they must send their factories to the US in order to sell to the US and take the profits back home to provide for their elderly. To continue this the US must design a pathway to citizenship for all of the illegal migrants in the country. The way forward is to secure the border, deport the criminals, find the missing children and set up work permits for the others. This will lead to green cards and citizenship.