I think anyone can benefit from reading about the Anthropic Principle; so look it up on your search engine.It is a good point from which to encounter serious modern thinking about the Creation. I am afraid the narcissistic entertainment culture is not a place where serious thinking can be found.

continued...Actually it is a politically designed program with political goals in mind. I must say I am confused how a political class could reason that it is in their best interest for the host country to go broke, however. Especially so since it seems contradictory to assume the creditor nations (eg, China) would in effect be financing our military to their detriment. And they an expansionist nation with a profound cultural heritage, in addition. I think the political class has misjudged and very grossly underestimated our friends the Chinese. Not every non-white country is a manipulable banana republic, ya know.

I may be wrong about this, but I believe the economic idea behind the free trade movement is based on David Ricardo's thesis that if there were free trade an entitiy could focus on what it does best, and then could expect the trading partner to do what it does best; this would be to everyone's benefit over time. Balance in trade would be the proof the matter. However, a severe imbalance in trade has occurred in the case of the USA as a result of free trade agreements. Does this not negate the hypothesis that free trade is on balance beneficial? Personally I think "free trade" is not a program designed to enhance economic effectiveness since obviously the USA is hemorrhaging wealth as a result of it.