[Citizen Blade]

You're mocking Americans, especially those that created the high tech industries that are now being farmed out under "free trade" agreements so the third world economies, along with the globalists, can profit from it.

I'm mocking American companies that need to run to government to protect them from big, bad competition. Our economy and industry is the envy of the world and is based on American ingenuity, perserverance and creativity. I have full faith in Americans' ability to be competitive in the global economy.

You're making an emphatically anti-American claim right now.

What claim have I made that is anti-American? You're the one that seems to believe that we can't compete internationally without the government holding our hand.

Why would American industry become inefficient when Americans don't have to compete with slaves?

Let's see if you can follow this- if you get the government to protect you from certain competition, then you don't have to worry about how to beat that competition in the marketplace. This breeds inefficiency and leads to complacency.

Or are you claiming slavery is the only efficient type of labor?

Slave labor and cheap, low-skill labor are only efficient in low-end industries. If you're in an industry where an illiterate third-worlder can replace you for ten cents an hour, you need to start thinking about a career change. But you certainly should not expect the government to protect your cozy, inefficient job by forcing your fellow citizens to pay more for products.

[hedgetrimmer]

I'm mocking American companies that need to run to government to protect them from big, bad competition.

Slavery is bad competition, you're correct on that. However to say there was no competition for American companies before "free trade" is a falsehood. Plenty of domestic competition was generated in our once prosperous economy. Maybe you're getting confused with the command economy of communism, where there is no competition, just government sanctioned producers. Is that your experience, rather than the former free enterprise system, including tariffs, that gave America such great prosperity?

[hedgetrimmer]

Slave labor and cheap, low-skill labor are only efficient in low-end industries. If you're in an industry where an illiterate third-worlder can replace you for ten cents an hour, you need to start thinking about a career change. But you certainly should not expect the government to protect your cozy, inefficient job by forcing your fellow citizens to pay more for products.

Slave labor is good. The US Constitution abolishing slavery is something to be ignored. Anyone who supports Constitutional government including constitutional tariffs must be made the recipients of ad hominem attacks. Your "free trader" playbook needs to be updated. These are old, tired and false arguments. Most of the American people don't fall for them anymore.