[apoliticalone]

So your argument is that if the widgets can be manufactured overseas at half the cost, a domestic widget manufacturer should not locate his plant overseas but instead have his global competitors put him out of business by providing the same product at half the cost to his customer base. Sir, your sentiments are altruistic but unfortunately they are have no basis in economic reality.

We need to face reality and facts. It was America that foolishly sacrificed and gave away its own economic future and market share so that China's economy could be boosted. Thus China and others could compete with America for natural resources and military power and provide a new markets. This was done because the multi-national China first corporations own our traitorous US Congress.

What rational patriotic reason could there be for continuing to purposely give away what was once the most robust manufacturing economy on Earth to the benefit of other nations and Wall St.? The solution was simply the provision of tariffs which would have balanced the playing field, maintained our power and fiscal stability, and provided incentives to locate here, and government income from those wishing to sell to the USA. The international corporations despise sovereign power and nationalism, and they've successfully worked to eliminate it in America.

[kearnyirish2]

The fact that we educate so many students from “enemy” countries is odd as well. Why we would ever allow Red Chinese students into our country, then whine when our technology is pirated, makes no sense; in fact, it lends credence to the growing number of Americans that suspect they’ve been had.