Who said anything about a stock price? Protectionism screws consumers, not producers. Walmart would be happy to source domestically if everybody else had to, and of course impoverish it's customers by charging far more. And how will we ever fight a war when so many Legos and Snuggies are being made in China? If we just had a few laws, high school dropouts could be making $40 and hour doing low skill labor that otherwise destitute Chinese are willing to do for $2 a day. Then everything would be fine.
I won't call you idiotic. But seriously, if your life depended on the correct answer, what percentage of your position is based on hard-headed, realistic economic analysis about the world as it really is today, and what percentage is based some sort of magical thinking that if we could only regulate things properly, while restricting those dastardly corporations and Chinamen, we could get back to the good old days when Pa could make a good living without knowing a thing?
Ok, you’re right. Things are so much better now that the manufacturing is finished here in America. And Seattle is going to be *awesome* when Boeing moves airliner production to China. And i think it’s way cool that we structured our laws to make it impossible to mine or drill here!
And shutting down farming in California is grand! We can get it cheaper from Mexico anyway. (whats a little ecoli among friends?) And i feel way safer that Mexican truckers can drive all over our country,, when i think Mexico, i think “safe well-maintained truck”.
BTW care to guess who just LOVES open borders? NAFTA free traders, thats who. The same mentality has noooo prob with open borders. The more open, the better.
Open your eyes. Government laws, passed for bankers are just as dangerous to our freedom as slavishly doing what unions bribed them to do in the 60s and 70s.