[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.

[Poohbah]

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.

And then conditions started changing at a more rapid pace, shortening the planning horizon.

Anyone trying to plan beyond 5 years is, to put it mildly, a fool. And at the five-year mark, your "plan" shouldn't be more than a page long...double-spaced.

My experience is that it's when companies think they've found THE long-term plan and weld themselves to it that they've pretty much doomed themselves.