[greenwolf]

As Milton Friedman has stated, "we work to live, we do not live to work." The concern should be with our production, not its means--employment. Tariffs and quotas to protect American employment reduce our standard of living as we engage in lines of production that are not the most efficient in providing for ourselves.

There is NO area of endeavor in this world in which Americans can compete with slave labor or people living in thatch huts. That's the basic problem.

[Luis Gonzalez]

So, did slave labor and thatch huts just get invented?

We seem to have been doing just fine competing in that world up to now.