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I see it like this; The rest of the world is laying down their first real infrastructure of schools hospitals and other public services. Meanwhile, we are in a transition phase laying down the high tech infrastructure for tomorrows industries. Although we are buying from over seas we are buying basic products for cheap and putting these cheap products into the construction of this new high tech infrastructure. The time saved by having every product and every industry wired, will make industry and manufacturing streamlined to such a point where inventory will be sold at their immediate value.

I'm an optimist; although we do not have the best schools in the world we have the most educated people in the world; if we have to turn back to manufacturing Styrofoam cups and cheap products, I don't think it will be that difficult. The other nations like China and India are dogged by the fact that 80% of their population are treated like cattle.... there is a reckoning a comin' and I don't think it will be in America.

RE: "there is a reckoning a comin' and I don't think it will be in America."

That's a good point and IMO very true. We're a long way from being ready for any NWO or "global" community IMO. But it could help trigger things here nervertheless.

economic problems helped pave the way for Mussolini’s seizure of dictatorial powers

Leave it to the little people to fix things while the "intellectuals" debate trade and finance. On the bright side IMO we may yet see a patriot-dictator. Kinda like the original angry American in the movie "Falling Down" only this time the hero wins because there are millions more of them.

Every nation over two-hundred years old is entitled to at least one patriot-dictator. I've been waiting for ours since the early 1970s -- it's long past time for cleaning our house of those who have "moved beyond being Americans."

Or, we could ask 'em over there to send our stuff back.

Or, we could just go along. To wit, nothing to see here, folks. Just another whining Bush hater. The Dims would make it worse. Come on! Let's hear it, "Free trade is good!" "Free trade is good!" Louder! Follow the line off the cliff . . . .

One more thing about the article

Then there is Henry Kissinger. Obliquely criticizing American trade policy at a conference last summer, he suggested that a nation that had lost its manufacturing base could not long remain a world power.

What was the rest of his statement, "Ve have it China?" Or did the Chi-coms terminate his lucrative contracts and now he's upset with them?