Where are “people” (Conservatives) getting this idea from? Governments do not have total information of the production of all goods produced in the world. How hard is it to understand they just look at the shipping location of items and their classified category?
This is every time I talk to my father in law about politics. He believes, with every fiber of his being, that the dollar is gold backed because “why else would there be so much gold in Fort Knox!” He will not suffer to hear the name Bretton Woods spoken aloud.