To All;
We all have our opinions about trade and how it effects our national security. With that said, I will take the opinion of someone who sits on the Armed Service Committee and who also has had his kid go off to war with the equipment he has purchased over some armchair suedo economist from Free Republic who's only response to most arguments is to ask what the definition of is, is.
By Hunter's own words to C-pac, we only have one manufacture of "amour plating" state side. This is a good thing? Do you feel comfortable with this? If you do, than most likely you have never left the comfort of your super comfotable leather chair that sits in front of your PC to go fight in a war. Having 7.62 x 39mm rounds whizzing past your "free trade with commies religion" head just might change your mind.
Disclaimer: I have not gone to war, but I lay awake praying for many close friends that are in harms way right now.
Duncan Huner won a medal in Viet Nam, and his son did two tours in Iraq, including Fallujah.
He certainly has walked the walk.
I don't feel comfortable with it, but I'm grounded enough in reality to understand that slapping a tariff on ping-pong balls doesn't address the problem. Do you? Does Hunter?