[Sabramerican]

So you're referring to even the most minute parts, circuit boards. Just seal the US and not allow the free flow of goods?

I have a query about reconciling it with a conservative ideology.

Conservatives have always found a problem with the Courts understanding of the Commerce Clause, allowing the Government to interfere with interstate trade in the most minute detail.

How does a Conservative believe that the Government can tell a businessman with whom he can do business, from whom he can buy parts? Making such parts unnaturally expensive I count as interference.

Conservative values are, or should be all about Liberty. How do you find a legitimate excuse to the take away the freedom of business to go and do what is best for business?

[hedgetrimmer]

How does a Conservative believe that the Government can tell a businessman with whom he can do business, from whom he can buy parts?

Conservatives believe that with freedom comes responsiblity. That responsiblity includes a duty to ones country and ones countrymen. So, is it conservative to make the despots running communist countries richer and more powerful?

[hedgetrimmer]

How do you find a legitimate excuse to the take away the freedom of business to go and do what is best for business?

If BUSINESS is violating individual rights then it should be stopped. In the late 17th and early 18th century some businesses felt that what was best for them was slavery. Slavery violates individual rights. Eventually, the government stepped in and stopped it. Now business is violating the individual rights of US citizens. Domestically businesses that use illegal alien labor are violating our rights to a sovereign nation and secure borders. Internationally they have hijacked our representative government and through global institutions like the WTO they regulate our trade, removing access to the process from individual citizens. The list is very very long, but you get my point.