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And Hitler surely won't turn around and attack Russia knowing the butt kicking Napoleon took... History can lend insight - but in this case, there is no historical context with which one can compare because it's never been done before. And for good reason.

Comparative Advantage doesn't exist currently. And thats a foundation stone for free trade - required as it were. So there is good reason to prognosticate doom when there is no history to compare to, you're fooling with a theory whose baseline requirements for implementation haven't been met and the only result gleaned has been the ruin of people and an attack on middle class incomes that is growing to an all out assault. And we aren't talking about Japan here are we. We're talking about companies expecting the US to hand it's jobs to every 50 cent a day worker on the planet - numbering in the multiples over the sum total of US citizens so they can make themselves rich, tell us how rosey things are and in the meantime laugh apparently at the destruction they've wrought because they can't control things here and seem to think it's their birthright. If Congress don't reign you unethical twits in, the American people will reign it all in.