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"This strategy has our enemies in total disarray. Meanwhile our Politcal Class just keeps slogging away doing the peoples' business."

This is where the free traders come in and tell you it's all ok. We can retool. We can compensate. We're not going to war with China. etc, etc.

The average American is under assault from all directions. I watched the History Channel presentation on Rome last night. Rome was big, and powerful and advanced, and the collapse of Rome was unimaginable too.

This is where the free traders come in and tell you it's all ok.

More like this is where the protectionists come in and tell you that the free traders tell you it's all ok.

Is this material available in the U.S., or not? If it is, then how hard can it be to find someone to operate/process/mine it at a profit? There isn't a free trader on this board who would argue that the U.S. should not have its own source when it is a matter of national security. The fact that the U.S. does not should make everyone wonder why it doesn't. And it's not very likely that the reason is trade policy.

"The average American is under assault from all directions. I watched the History Channel presentation on Rome last night. Rome was big, and powerful and advanced, and the collapse of Rome was unimaginable too"

You have that 100% correct brownsfan!

For every dollar in my pocket (after taxes) there are at least 20 people trying to take it. There are people transferring jobs out of the country so I cannot even earn another dollar to replace the one I have.

Both political parties have become nothing but a ruling class and so long as they get elected in significant numbers we will be at the bottom of the food chain.

You have people, many conservatives I am ashamed to say, that think a company's sole purpose is to the stock holders. Well like absolutely everything else in life when taken to the extreme it becomes a bad thing. Keep downsizing, keep shifting production overseas, only worry about the next quarterly report and not the 2-5 year long term implications of your cutting. Eventually you will remove so much of the economic fuel (USA workers) that you will have leveled that playing field by lowering the standard of living in the USA to match the 3rd world scum.

A real titan of industry can grow a company with a good product, reasonable (not cheap) price, and high quality service. There are very few people left that can grow a company and I would say in that group you would not find many MBAs.

Any MBA idiot can make the bottom line look good for about 3 years after that the bottom falls out. The last 3 firms I worked for did that exact same thing. Cut, focus on the quarterly report to keep the stock up, get their bonus, after 3 years bankrupt.