[Willie Green]

How many people on this thread can actually write that they are motivated to do better because of competition? How many people here are frightened by competition.

How many are fed up with government policies that shackle our domestic industries while permitting offshore industries to suck-out our lifeblood?

It's akin to sending a boxer into the ring, hogtied and blindfolded, and cheering for the swarm of midgets who beat the crap out of him with ballbats and chains because they're "more competitive".

That's bullcrap.
We need a level playing field.
Not this farcical competition that's been rigged by the transnational bookies.

[ninenot]

Yup.

Jonathan Swift wrote "Gulliver" and mentioned the Lilliputians. Swift was obviously talking about the WTO's work on the USA.