If you look at the economic libertarians around here no wonder there is little hope for the USA. These so called Free Trade lovers justify their arguments because they look at economics in 2 dimensions supply and demand. There is a third inseparable dimension, politics. You cannot discuss economics without politics.
Seriously, do you ever go back and reread some of the bs you write?
Politics as in Geo-politics. Simple things escape the pure trading libertarians such as why does Japan hold so much USG debt? They do us this favor as a kind of payment for us backing them up against China. Japan is not just buying USG securities for the heck of it. It has a reason///That they are an ally