[lonestar67]

I have a better idea. Buy the products you want to buy. Make the best choices you can. Be as productive as you possibly can.

If you follow this advice, you will contribute to a growing economy.

I think this is generally and almost inexorably what consumers will do despite govt efforts to the contrary.

The fact that Americans have the wealth to purchase massive volumes of foreign made goods does not alarm me. I hope to persuade others to feel the same.

I am not trying to encourage the arbitrary decisionmaking suggested in your post.

[hedgetrimmer]

The fact that Americans have the wealth to purchase massive volumes of foreign made goods does not alarm me means they are perfect patsies so that the globalists that want to create a centrally managed economy can take advantage of them.

The WTO is the perfect tool.

Clinton describes the treaties which are locking the United States into a network of global entanglements: "the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Chemical Weapons Convention, "binding international commitments to protect the environment" (i.e,, the Global Warming Treaty), and the NATO Expansion Treaty.

Clinton spoke with gusto about what he called "this new global era." He said, "The forces of global integration are a great tide, inexorably wearing away the established order of things. But we must decide what will be left in its wake."

Clinton added, "If we can prove that you can merge integrated economies and integrated democracies, then we'll be more likely to build a global system of this kind." It's clear that the "kind" of a "global system" that Clinton is trying to "build" will be based on merging "integrated" economies and democracies.