Well, bring it on. I'll be waiting for you. I don't care if you're an enemy also, just another to the list. I blame people like you also for the financial trouble we're in for not studying what the hell you're talking about and blaming those the liberals and unions blame. You want to buddy up with them, go ahead. You like to throw the word "traitor" around, you'll regret if you come around me when the SHTF.
Unless the imported products are free, it’s rather pointless to talk about whether or not people without jobs can afford them.
We could afford anything we wanted if we would fix our tax structure, our regulation system, and our relationship to unions.
You obviously don’t know jack-all about international finance.
The reason why the PRC is able to take it all out of the US isn’t regulatory or even wage structure in the US.
It is because they’re kept their currency artificially pegged to the US dollar to insure that, no matter what, their products will enjoy a cost benefit relative to goods made where the wages and inputs are priced in USD. That’s it. Full stop.
You and your type have ignored this since China was allowed MFN status for their trade with the US. You continue to ignore it. You think that you’re trading with a bunch of foreign businessmen, but you’re too stupid to actually do your homework on the PRC and realize that most companies with any sort of important trade advantage are actually subsidiaries of the PLA, and are financed through cut-outs by the state. US businesses aren’t competing with other companies off-shore, they’re competing with the government of the PRC and their army.
Oh, and you’ve enabled the wholesale transfer of military and dual-use technology to the last of the communist powers on the planet.
Brilliant own-goal there, scooter.