[Nathan Zachary]

Batten down the hatches, seal the borders, put tariffs on everything so weak, ailing manufacturing jobs filled with high wage union workers with big heath care packages can compete! That's the ticket!
Who cares if we ever sell anything to another country again, because WE can't compete. We can live in a communist utopia, like the USSR did. /s

[mysterio]

Let's move all our factories to third world countries so we can make things real cheap. Those darn factory workers are so greedy to want to earn a living. We should teach them a lesson.

Whoops, turns out those manufacturing employees were a large part of the economic base of this country, and when they stop buying, corporations are going to be screwed.

All sarcasm aside, there's a happy medium. We don't have to become the USSR with a completely isolationist economy, and we don't have to let the free traders ship all of our jobs overseas.