[spetznaz]

Great article. The sad thing though is that while it is obvious to (almost) anyone with a working brain, there are those who will just pooh-pooh this based entirely on emotions. And emotion will always trump logic!

However there is always hope that one of the emotion-driven types will read this and see the logic. That they might realize the implications of comparative advantages. That they might see the real costs associated with protection.

[from occupied ga]

However there is always hope that one of the emotion-driven types will read this and see the logic.

You wouldn't say this if you'd read all of the first 50 posts :-(

[dogbyte12]

It is not all about logic though.

Is it logical to make a 16 year old girl have a child when she is pregnant with her whole life in front of her?

Is it logical to cheer for the Detroit Tigers when none of the players are actually from Detroit?

Is it logical to want manufacturing jobs instead of retail? Maybe not. But so what? What do we value? The most efficient race to the bottom for labor? Mexico is already hurting because their workers who made our stuff for $1.00 an hour is too expensive. We can make labor even cheaper. $.17 an hour in some parts of the world. Then what? So we have billions of people making stuff for the tens of millions who can afford it. It kind of reminds me of the feudal era. I want to conserve the past, but not go back that far.