But Free Traders don’t say that “China is your friend”.
That would be the sort of retarded straw-man argument that protectionists make up when they have nothing substantive to say.
What Free Traders *in fact* say is that “Free Trade is your friend”.
If India or Brazil or China or the UK makes something or does something better, faster or cheaper than a domestic supplier then you should be free to go and buy it from them. Your choice, not the Governments.
You can either allow people to do what they want with their own damn money - or you can use protectionism and tariffs to grow Government and to turn your domestic industries into toxic welfare dumps.
Which will it be?
Oh sure, I'm glad we no longer make anything in the U.S., and depend on Communist countries now..So what if it's left tens of millions of Americans unemployed...Look how well it's worked out! Millions have lost their jobs, homes, businesses, careers while big biz off shored tens of hundreds of thousands of companies and jobs to cheap labor land...All this while government imported tens of millions of low wage labor illegal aliens here.
Yes, it's all worked out so well!
Thank God for free trade!