[SubMareener]

I guess you missed the fact that other countries are manipulating their currency to make US exports more expensive or putting out right tariffs on them. We are already LOSING trade wars.

[jneesy]

i would guess everyone on this page (including me ) would say Reagan was the best president in our lifetime just ask the japanese what he thought about tariffs

http://americaneconomicalert.org/view_art.asp?Prod_ID=1134

[Smokin' Joe]

We can blame other countries all we want, but the reality is that America has regulated its own industry right out of here. Between the EPA, IRS, OSHA, USFWS, ACOE, and a host of other regulatory agencies it is just too difficult or expensive to do business in an environment where the regulations are constantly being changed.

Why not go to some place where the HSE department might be one guy, instead of an army, where 'human resources' is the guy who tells you to get back to work without worrying about what words he uses, and where the environmental standards don't require a complete refit of your plant to yet another, newer, higher standard as soon as the last refit to bring you into compliance with the old standard was completed.

Sure, stuff from elsewhere is cheaper, even with shipping. You think Americans can't outproduce that? Sure we can. If we get the government off our collective back.