Get YOUR head out of wherever it is and see what’s happening. I think it is imperative that we help boot our exporters abilities to compete with entities in other countries and the FairTax certainly help that (among many other benefits).
More jobs have been "in-sourced" to the US than outsourced - look it up. The "mortgage crisis" ?? unqualified people signing up for bad loans?? Not my problem. Downsizing, again, anyone with a brain should be able to see when their job might not be around in the near future. You seriously think none of this has happened before?
The FT does nothing to "solve stupidity" - if anything - it will exacerbate it.