But you see the Chinese will eventually make the software as well or some other third world country will...this is the problem with trade as practiced today.
"Plastics."
(To Dustin Hoffman, "The Graduate", circa 1964)
"But you see the Chinese Japanese will eventually make the software plastic gizmos as well or some other third world country will...this is the problem with trade as practiced today."
Your argument doesn't stand the test of time so well. The industry that will replace software hasn't been invented yet. So long as we don't let 0bamessiah and protectionists turn this country into an ossified dictatorship of the proletariat, we'll invent the next industry, and our kids will be rolling in that dough. Just don't kill the productive goose of motivation with the knife of protectionism.