[HiTech RedNeck]

What’s more, the patriotism cancer doesn’t even need a tariff cure, however useful it may prove. I go back to even deeper roots here.

And too-tight trade (as in the old days when the Feds ran on nothing but tariffs) forgets that there is a world full of things that we can’t always come up with in the USA. Wise balance is always a good rule.

[central_va]

And too-tight trade (as in the old days when the Feds ran on nothing but tariffs) forgets that there is a world full of things that we can’t always come up with in the USA.

Poppycock. Name one thing from lunar landers to soy beans that the USA can't make. Bananas? LOL. The USA was self sufficient in everything up the 1950's.