[Cringing Negativism Network]

Thanks for that thoughtful reply.

I still think we need to become far more pro-American.

We rode the “globalization” thing to it’s logical extreme.

Buy American.

[bert]

-——We rode the “globalization” thing to it’s logical extreme.-——

It has only just begun

[Theoria]

We don't live in a Free Marktet. Nor was America founded on free market principles.

The 'conservative' approach was has been to keep and maintain tariffs and other benefits for local production.

The end result of globalization and wage arbitrage is that American wages will stop increasing, while 2nd and 3rd world countries will rise. One does not have to be Ross Perot to see that.

Secondly, our trade policies hurt local production. A prime example is simple Reciprocity. We don't use it. A surfboard made in California will be slapped a tariff on by the Taiwanese, while a Taiwanese surfboard comes in duty free.

In the long run we need jobs. There won't be many to come in the future. I'm realizing that the 'middle' class was a short, and odd occurrence that will eventually be washed away.

With the coming importation of millions of illegal aliens and advances in technology that destroys manhours we will see less and less jobs required or needed, and at wages that will be less beneficial.