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Just last month there was a Mexican cilantro recall in the grocery stores when it was discovered that workers were relieving themselves in the fields. The cilantro was replaced with California grown cilantro. It's too bad that we didn't get California produce to begin with.

I think it's one thing to trade for the natural resources of another country, it's quite another to ship our own to another country to be assembled there only to be shipped back here as a finished product.

Regarding trade for natural resources, my theory has always been that the Leftist environmental extremist agenda is not really about protecting the earth; it's about forcing the United States to not use its abundant natural resources to strengthen itself. The agenda is about strangling the United States until it weakens and atrophies, until such time as the country collapses and a new Leftist government takes over. Only then will they allow the exploitation of our natural resources for themselves.

Look how easily Russia got 20% of our uranium, while we can't even open up a new power plant or refinery or pipeline!

This is why we don't restart our manufacturing base, because it will begin consuming our own resources like oil, coal, lumber, and iron, to make us strong again as we put our own citizens back to work making us self-sufficient again.

Sure, we can trade for off-season bananas and melons, but it's ridiculous to be at the mercy of other countries for oil and steel for bridges and buildings and cars and buses and trains.

-PJ