“Oliver Wendell Holmes phrased it a little differently: ‘Freedom of Speech doesn’t give one the right to runn into a crowded theatre and yell “Fire!” when there isn’t one.”
Hopw on earth is that applicable? If you figure that leaving international trade to its own devices, as we do with interstate trade for instance, would result in the equivalent of panic and suffocation, then you don’t believe in the free market. Let me say this right now, I think America’s history of tariff’s specifically and protectionism generally is shameful. I’m sure we would have been better off without it.
But alas, we are stuck thinking of foreigners as our enemies. In the eyes of some it is not enough that people from two different nations mutually benefit from trade. One country must win, and one must lose. It doesn’t have to be that way, though. All we have to care about is ourselves. Leave the rest of the world to its own concerns. And don’t get me wrong, China might think itself our enemy. It may actually be our enemy at some point, but not until it acts overtly, in my opinion. If in the meantime we subsidize its aggrandizement, so be it. At least we got something in return for it.
Oh boy, you've obviously been asleep while they've been dramatically ramping up their military while threatening the U.S. homeland....With thinking like this, this country is in really deep s**t.
The race for profits, regardless of consequences has all but destroyed America.
No doubt, you haven't noticed this either.