[William Terrell]

Why didn't you put your $11,300 into an American investment to get an American company up and going? Sure, you made $1,800 to spend here, but you have improved a foreign economy with a viable business instead of America.

Tell me, why should America become dependent on world trade, instead of manufacturing in American and trading with each other? What's the point?

[expat_panama]

Why didn't you put your $11,300 into an American investment to get an American company up and going?

I did--  and with the $1,800 profit added in I was able to make it a total investment of $13,100 for the American company!   

Please tell me why making money for America is wrong .  If you don't know, at least tell me why foreign trade is so bad it would be better for Americans to starve and the US treasury to be bankrupt (remember the $600 in taxes) than for any American to have the freedom and liberty to contact the outside world.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Sure, you made $1,800 to spend here, but you have improved a foreign economy with a viable business instead of America.

There you go again. Like so many protectionists, you only see one side of the equation. If you admit that American investment is good for a foreign business, then foreign investment is good for American business.