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you are over reaching - again I was talking about the same type of provision that America enacted to maintain an industrial base for national security.

http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/export/provisions.htm

The Export Control Act of 1949 gave the US Department of Commerce Bureau of Export Administration primary responsibility for administering and enforcing export controls on dual-use items, and for the first time defined three reasons for the imposition of these controls - national security, foreign policy, and short supply. Upon the expiration of the Export Control Act, the Export Administration Act (EAA) of 1969 took effect on January 1, 1970. The EAA was reestablished in 1979, and amended several times since. The Act lapsed on August 20, 1994.

In recent years the Clinton Administration has made major progress in eliminating unnecessary and ineffective export controls and streamlining the export control process.

MCTL: Militarily Critical Technologies List The Militarily Critical Technologies List (MCTL), which is revised each year to reflect changes in technologies and the world environment, is the Defense Department’s best guess as to what technologies and equipment must be protected from unauthorized export. These technologies are perceived as providing the key to maintaining US military superiority.

Well, judging from what I heard from my few contacts there - those who can are (and those who cannot would like to be) voting with their feet. While I got the ef out of there 24 years ago, these people are more up to date - and they do not express any optimism, either in social or in economic prospects of the society. I know some of these people well enough to trust their judgment on this subject, independently of what I knew at my time there or could deduce from theoretical considerations. Mark Steyn's article in its first half [www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1399019/posts] is mostly on the mark and squares with what I've heard, although he does occasionally go for a rhetorical flourish.