[Steve_Seattle]

"The rest of us should satisfied with cheap crap, produced simply so that we can buy it so that the corporation will garner more profit."

Ok, what's your solution? But before you propose your solution, here's what you're tinkering with: a country in which most people own their own hones, own one or more cars, a computer, washer and dryer, electrical appliances, indoor plumbing, access to health care, free public education, etc, and with unemployment generally half of what it is in the socialist economies you seem to be promoting. Remind me what it is you are trying to fix.

[raybbr]

Ok, what's your solution? But before you propose your solution, here's what you're tinkering with: a country in which most people own their own hones, own one or more cars, a computer, washer and dryer, electrical appliances, indoor plumbing, access to health care, free public education, etc, and with unemployment generally half of what it is in the socialist economies you seem to be promoting. Remind me what it is you are trying to fix.

Actually, I am not trying to "fix" anything. I want America to stay the world's super-power both economically and militarily. Just the opposite is being proposed by free-traders. They want the rest of the world to compete with us on those levels. They claim by doing so we will become even better. There is no evidence of this. I say the rest of the world will catch us and eventually figure a way to defeat us. I believe that foreign governments are looking forward to the day when they can supplant us as the "greatest nation on earth".

If you dispute that then you must also dispute the claim the competition among companies is good. Governments are just like corporations. Their goal is to become the sole source of wealth in any given industry.

The future of America vis-a-vis world economic domination is what I am trying to preserve. The free traders are the ones trying to "fix" something.