[JustAnAmerican]

"Well, who's "we"? Start the sucker up, why don't you? Your government is trying to create a market for you, so why not take advantage? I'm sure you can convince me and the rest of the taxpayers that paying exhorbitant prices for your product, thanks to everything from payroll taxes to unionized labor, is a good thing.Why don't we just shut the borders and start up all of the industries that have left? No imports, no exports, just one big happy country? Because it would suck, that's why. Feel free to peruse the history of Soviet command economies to get a taste."

And another voice is heard from the "Manufacturing in the US is sooooo expensive, so instead of trying to make changes from within we will just send our jobs overseas so some third world, non-American(and in lots of cases anti_American) slave laborer can put another American out of work" so they(the anti-US companies) can make that extra buck. Or shucks, I know lets hire all those illegals for pennies on the dollar, put more Americans out of work. After all you can make a killing by killing off the Middle class in America.

If the Americans who fought in all our history's wars, had decided that fighting for America was not worth it, you would no doubt be speaking in German, Japanese or living in just another British colony. Wake up, support the country you live in instead of finding reasons not to. And if you do not like the way things are going, then "Change them", it's that lil ole thing called democracy. You know, that thing that those third worlders do not have.

[Mr. Bird]

I am fighting for my country and my way of life by resisting the urge to ask the government to step in everytime the wind blows. In my point that you quote, I clearly invite anyone to start up the flat screen business mentioned in the article. No one is stopping anyone from doing so. The reason they won't? They can't compete, thanks to the costs associated with that particular venture in this country. You propose an infusion of subsidies to prop up non-existent demand? That's brilliant. Who's fighting for the welfare of the U.S. here?

[swany]

They won't do that unless they know American consumers will pay higher prices they have to charge.