[expat_panama]

"America has become another country "globalized" into Europe...   ...If the Euro and USD were equal..."

Not sure how much of a change that is.  Under the G. Washington administration trade negotiations were underway w/ China and Russia, and the first U.S. embassy was set up in Holland to expand trade and borrow money.  European money was so welcome in the U.S. that the idea was to us it instead of dollars altogether.

If anything, since then we're less globalized --either that or we could say Europe's become 'Americanized'.

[nascarnation]

Interesting history, good post, thanks

[Jumper]

Our consumer prices have skyrocketed in conjunction with smaller products, thus we are Europeanized.

The democrats could not openly support NAFTA, but buy out GM and give the Teachers a promise of new students forever in their lifetimes, and NAFTA morphs into Immigration... What devious and delicious plan. All served up by Barack.

[central_va]

The first law passed by the Washington Administration was the Tariff Act of 1789. There were no “Free Traders” amongst the ranks of the founders.