LOL! I have no need to say anything further as you have just made my case for me! Thank you!
Exports are BAD! LOL!
That is not what I said but I wouldn't expect accuracy or honesty from you. When someone who actually knows something about Economics tries to argue with someone who doesn't that is the kind of nonsense one must expect.
Such comments are the reason your side doesn't convince anyone who has actually studied these issues and cannot be convinced by mere rhetorical rodomontades. It takes honest and careful analysis something your friends are singularly incapable of doing.