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Once again, Tom Purcell proves himself to be a "useful idiot".

Once again Willie Green proves himself to be a one hit wonder. An Economic Isolationist, Green would shackle the A American Consumer to over priced, shoddy goods in order to feed his paranoid delusions about Foreigners making stuff. Green, who apparently never attended a single econ class, seems to have embraced the 17th Century ideals or mechantilism. A failed economic model that defined Economic Strength in terms of self sufficiency. Green, who failure to comprehend even the most basic of economic facts about trade can be counted on to post dozens of hysterical uninformed posts on Free Republic weekly exposing his views that Americans should be forced by Dictatorial Government action to become the Economic Slaves of inefficient American companies making shoddy goods JUST because they claim to "be American." The fact that this would bankrupt American society by eliminating our BEST performing company's from being able to compete on the global market AND eliminate any competition for failing American Businesses to evolve or DIE troubles Mr Green's emotionally hysteric intellect not at all.

MNJohnnie:

Relax, unwind, denature your proteins!

Green would shackle the A American Consumer to over priced, shoddy goods in order to feed his paranoid delusions about Foreigners making stuff.

You have forgotten about shoddy, overpriced foreign goods.
Like the Yugo.
Speaking of cars--if American-produced just means 'over-priced, shoddy'--why is there so much 'insourcing' and why do free-traders crow about it?

The fact that this would bankrupt American society by eliminating our BEST performing company's [sic] from being able to compete on the global market...

Err, yes. Just name for me the cheap foreign software companies which are eating Microsoft's lunch and threatening to 'drive them out of business'.

As for H-P, Carly "no American job is safe" is running them into the ground by a combination of clueless strategy and inept execution.

Is AMD straddling the rotting corpse of Intel due to Intel's refusal to use offshoring or H1-B visas? What is Intel's profit margin anyway? And what was it 5 or 10 years ago before all of the ruckus about outsourcing?

Please learn to think before you post.
I'd like to think you are capable of it.

Are you willing to live up to the challenge?

I like Willie Green's post's. There is a grain of truth in them. I agree with you that American companies are guilty of dropping the ball. General Motors, in particular, made junk in the '70's, '80's and most of the '90's with the help of overpaid union labor. However, the countries that are our "Free Trade" partners still practice the 17th Century "Mercantilism" that you deride. Right now, "Free Trade" is really not so "free". AFAIAC, "Willie" is only half-wrong.