[maui_hawaii]

I am not at all talking about protecting a particular industry here or there.

I am talking about protecting everything from legal protection, to IPR, to our system of doing things.

We are trading in many cases with a bunch of half (or full) communist or socialist who are seeking after targeted money.

If they want to compete using their government backing...thats not true competition. Thats how China and the associated problems with them arose.

If they have a true blue competitive advantage... so be it. If they are competitive because of targeted government subsidy... I say protect from that.

[Bigun]

I agree!

[Bigun]

I understand all that but we should not necessarily protect "our system of doing things" automatically! We should instead, get our own house in order so that we can compete on a level playing field with with anyone anywhere!

That is why reforming our tax system is so important and needs to be at the to of the list of things to be done!