[Poohbah]

Well, when you repeat dogmatically Marxist positions, and then mention long-range planning based on 5-year increments...sorry, kiddo, you managed to look like a duck, walk like a duck, quack like a duck, and wander around loose during duck season...so it's kind of your own fault that you got some buckshot in your tail feathers.

[JNB]

Again, you do the name calling again. Again, what I and others is not state owned industry, not state ran planning, just want to make sdure the govrenmnet can do things like insure fair trade so the economy can do well in the long run, remeber that, planning for the long term, it is what US business did untill the 70s as well, plan for the long term rather than for next quarter.

As other have mentioned, there is no problem with trade when the plaing feild is level, trae between nations that have similar labor and enviromental laws, and of course do not have restriction on US goods coming in to their nation. That is not communism, it is being reasonable.