Title should read:
“With the factories, money and technology the U.S. outsourced to it via ‘free trade’, China develops sea power”
How about, “Growing Chinese Navy Threatens U.S. Sea Power; Protectionists Say Boycott Wal-Mart.”
I believe that the US is more than capable of winning the “free trade war.” We, however, have been fighting it very stupidly so far. Our nation’s strengths are severely hampered by our government’s efforts to extract revenue to perpetuate itself.
If we had a government that was truly interested in bettering the lot of its citizens, it would scrap the Internal Revenue code, the collection bureaucracy of the IRS, and repeal the 16th Amendment in favor of a National Retail Sales Tax - also known as the Fair Tax.
This would remove the taxation shackles from American manufacturing and businesses freeing them to focus on what they do best rather than on staving off the tax beast. Businesses would no longer need the tax accountants and wouldn’t need to do business in ways that minimize taxes rather than maximize efficiency.
Our citizens would also no longer need to spend the government estimated 8 hours (it took me over 40 hrs of work last year) to figure out how much Uncle Scam will steal from them each year. They can pay their Federal taxes in the same way that they pay their state level taxes - at the cash register when they buy new goods and services.
What corporation would not want to locate here when that is implemented? Unemployment will decrease, freedom will increase, and the ruling class will be greatly reduced in power.