Oh, one like Russia or China??? I declare Atlas Shrugged,, I will layoff my 10 employees and go on vacation. Enjoy your new socialist country. It not mine! Patriot of the USSA maybe!
How about an American manufacturing base? Many of you have no understanding of the issues in manufacturing. Every country has move to protect its industry. Other nations have been partnering with their industry for years. The free market approach to manufacturing will not work because our companies compete with countries not other companies.
If you consider the economic mess we are in, perhaps you might consider that this is not a ‘perfect storm’ as some have said, but the inevitable outcome of the service/consumer based economy. The small business service based economy is far to volatile to support an economy as large as ours needs to be. The bankers did their best to create wealth, but in the end they failed as they always do because real wealth is created by those who build goods. This is why India and China have done so well...they have a strong manufacturing base.
Our country is bankrupt, and as one freeper noted free trade/anti manufacturing DNA is all over the ‘body’...if this were a murder investigation, this policy would be heading for the gas chamber. This anti manufacturing/ fee trade economy belongs in the dustbins of history with all the ‘isms’ even if it is not an ‘ism’ such as communism or fascism because it has damaged this country horribly. It is time to speak of rebuilding this nation...an American nation.