[harpseal]

Investment would increase? Like in Venezuela?Look at American History and you will see that protective tariffs do work and have worked. When and if you provide some evidence to the contray I will be happy to discuss civbily any evidence you present but snide questions like this get only the resonse appropriate to a traitor to the USA. as I said, however, I will be more tahn happy to withdraw the traitor comment when you admit to being of some nationality other than American or you enter iunto rational discussion.

[Cronos]

harp, I disagree with you on the same argument you dish out tiem and again, 'tariffs worked then and can do so now'. Well, they won't work now because times are different, circumstances are different, WE are different. if you mean the 1800s then we were developing and moving west and getting boatloads of immigrants. We're a superpower now, heck no, we're THE HYPERPOWER and we can't shut the door on the world because, the world is the US's backyard. WE straddle the earth like no nation before so we can't go into isolation because that would kill ourselves. And it would close our eyes to the real dangers posed by reverts to the Dark Ages (alQ).