I think Rand is a great author, but the world has changed so much recently.
America cannot “shrug”, unless we want China to take everything away from us.
We need to compete. Bigtime. Buy American.
Would be nice if that were enough. But we do need a resurgence of moral righteousness, otherwise we merely sow our seed in vain. We don’t need God fighting against us.
The point is that we live in a country that now openly despises free enterprise and individual expression. We will fall to China if we cannot change this insanity and get back to a free and visionary society once more.
Protectionism isn’t competing. Protectionism makes us less competitive.
How many zillions of times do Freepers have to explain to you that coercion of business resources is un-American, and the solution is to fix our burdensome tax and regulatory systems?
Yet, thread after thread, year after year, you advocate the most shallow and ineffective and oppressive of economic arguments.