[nyconse]

One problem with your argument is that the competition is subsidized by their governments. You live in lala land. The real world is a bit different. Pay a visit to Buffalo and see if the former steel workers (or their kids those few who remain) are better off. This area remains depressed thirty years later. You will reap what you sow...the unfair policies that you defend will hurt you or your kids at some point in the future.

[Flying Circus]

It is a free country... if they can't find a job in Buffalo they can move to where there is a job. I grew up in the midwest, I couldn't get a job there, I moved to California (so you are right, I do live in lala land) and got a job. When the job here goes away I'll go somewhere where there is a job.

I know other countries subsidize industry... my argument is that, in general, subsidies are an inefficient and stupid practice. The cost to the country is far greater than the benefit. Subsidizing an existing industry happens at the cost of other emerging industries. The Japanese subsidize the heck of of their industry and what has it gotten them in the last 15 years??? Not much.