So should you be accused of being for larger government because you want government to do these things?No, because I can show Constitutional justification for government to secure our borders and protect us from invasion.
What is your Constitutional justification for protecting us from cheap plastic toys?
And, just because your position is so muddled, is it only cheap plastic toys from China, or cheap plastic toys from any foreign manufacturer?
Would you feel threatened if Canada became the new world-wide manufacturer of pink plastic flamingos?
You free traders have no understanding of how fast the U.S. has been and is being deindustrialized.
Maybe because it isn't happening?
It's no wonder so many Americans are unemployed , living in tent citys, confused about economics and weak in math. Oh, wait, we were talking about you, right?
You free traders have no understanding of how fast the U.S. has been and is being deindustrialized. Maybe because it isn't happening? OH yeah? Look at Detroit in 1949, the center of the industrial world. Now it is decayed, 3rd world hell hole. This happened to most of the industrial cities of the U.S. and will happen to the rest of the U.S. as our industrial base is withered away. imagine if instead we built on what we had in 1949 instead of giving it all away to China.Look at Shanghai , a china city and the tremendous growth in 20 years. 20 years ago is when we started trading with China ( and Clinton made it worse with the free trade agreement with China)
Well the U.S. is being rapidly deindustrialized. We import almost 3 trillion worth of products per year.And with the retail markup that's almost all of this consumer economy you keep praising. It may appear to some like you that everything is ok but that is because we are living on debt which we use to buy all this foreign crap. The U.S. can't survive if we have to import practically all of the things we use. If we are not there yet then we will be there soon as the massive amounts of imports we buy proves. U.S. Private sector job growth was almost non-existent over the past ten years. Take a look at this horrifying chart:
chart What do you think caused the non-existant job growth in the past 10 years when the population has mushroomed (mostly because of immigrants and welfare babies).Naturally when the population grows then we'd have more gas stations, convenience stores, retail stores, supermarkets , restaurants. So that proves that we lost millions of good jobs like manufacturing, engineering and created those stupid minimum wage jobs with a net of zero growth in the private sector.And it's worse than that if you take out all the useless government contractor jobs, government jobs, non profits etc. We are done and you free traders are preventing us from helping America.