[lelio]

However, if we lose 10% and gain 20% of much more creative and inventive work over the next 10 years, looks like we win.

Ideally that's what I would like to see and its the promise of the Free Traders. However what I see happening is that people will be conditioned to ship ideas offshore ASAP and we'll be stuck in a short sighted bubble economy.

But there's another side to that: being "just good enough" is very beneficial to society. Who really needs something vastly overengineered that arrives 5 years after a product that's just okay, but improves in that time frame?

I think there has to be a middle ground. Put tariffs on imports and lower our internal taxes so that its desirable to employ Americans. We get the benefits of both worlds.

[dfwgator]

Who really needs something vastly overengineered that arrives 5 years after a product that's just okay, but improves in that time frame?

"The best is the enemy of the good" - Voltaire