[arrogantsob]

Protectionism is a dead end and only invites retaliation. If you believe shrinking the world economy is an answer to anything you need to review some basic economic works.

Free trade makes both partners richer. It also makes both sides more competitive. Protecting inefficient and/or obsolete industries misallocates economic resources and undermines free enterprise.

Aneruca’s greatest enemies are not in Beijing but in D.C.

[hedgetrimmer]

Protectionism is a dead end and only invites retaliation

Only if the US is protecting itself from Chicoms. Otherwise everybody else but Britain is protecting their economy.

If you believe shrinking the world economy is an answer to anything you need to review some basic economic works.

Global economics is collectivism at the highest level. The world economy is not the responsibility of the American taxpayer. To put the world economy before the prosperity of America, is classic redistribution of wealth, free traitor.

Free trade makes both partners richer.

It makes you richer as long as you're a communist or global trash transnational corporate CEO. Everybody else is much poorer for it, especially tax paying US citizens.

Protecting inefficient and/or obsolete industries misallocates economic resources

Classic communese. You communist free traitors believe in 'perfect knowledge' which means you communist free traitors think you know everything about a system and can manipulate to perform the way you want it too. It was demonstrated over and over again in the USSR. Well you're manipulating the American economy and its crashing. Is that what you wanted it to do?

And by the way, free enterprise is not compatible with your globalist collectivist control of economies. Free enterprise means the overall economy isn't the focus, its the right of INDIVIDUALS, not corporations free traitor, to pursue wealth. 'free trade' has destroyed all that.