[Dog Gone]

The WTO doesn't regulate trade. It allows punitive sanctions against a nation found in violation.

That is the exact same thing any nation could do to us in the absence of WTO.

Sure, we could go back to the days of trade wars. We could go back to protectionism and all that got for us. Heck, we can do that under WTO. It's OUR decision.

[Oreo Kookey]

I hate politics. I'll continue to play the game but I won't like it one little bit.

[Willie Green]

We could go back to protectionism and all that got for us.

"The prohibiting duties we lay on all articles of foreign manufacture which prudence requires us to establish at home, with the patriotic determination of every good citizen to use no foreign article which can be made within ourselves without regard to difference of price, secures us against a relapse into foreign dependency."

--Thomas Jefferson to Jean Baptiste Say, 1815.