[CrucifiedTruth]

plumber, electrician, auto mechanic, generally any type of repair, retail sales, surgeon, dentist, corporate law...

Just hilarious! The road to global leadership: "cleaning each others sh*t, exhaust pipes and colons" or yes and I forgot "then suing each other over the results".

There's also geopolitics...but a safer world for our own 20-year-olds

The geopolitics is all there is to it. Once a country is hooked on the drugs of debt and import it's then sucked dry and enslaved. It happened in Argentina, where they lived a happy, careless, borrowed life and are now owned by the One-Worlders. What is happening now can be described only as a sell out.
Contrary to Friedman, being dependent on heavy trade only encourages terrorists. They can cause major problems by attacking the transportation system, or by destabilizing fringe countries along the trade routes. As the foreign trade grew so did terrorism. The terrorists saw their chance.

[dennisw]

VI Lenin said the capitalists would sell the rope to their executioner to hang them with. No too far off base for what's going on right now with outsourcing and technology transfers to China and India. Hyper capitalism plus a ruptured social contract = national suicide

[SupplySider]

Contrary to Friedman, being dependent on heavy trade only encourages terrorists. They can cause major problems by attacking the transportation system, or by destabilizing fringe countries along the trade routes.

Is all trade bad? Where would you draw the line? 100% tariff on all imports? Terrorists could disrupt domestic transportation, too. Shoud every man grow his own food and makes his own clothes?