[OldEarlGray]

>>The likelihood that Europe was sacrificed

Europe sacrificed itself on the alter of the Socialist Ba'al.

Ba'al being a Hebrew word meaning Lord, Owner, Possessor, Master...  typically rendered throughout history as the slave owning State (Babylon, Egypt, Rome...);  a  State of affairs which Thomas Jefferson recognized as:

"COMMERCE BETWEEN MASTER AND SLAVE IS DESPOTISM"

and from which:

"TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS [American] GOVERNMENTS ARE INSTITUTED AMONG MEN"

 

 

Dick Duncan and the rest of the NyLon Quisling free traitors can wave to the backside of my lifted kilt and kiss my Scotch/Russian American arse.  

I don't feel like "spiraling" on their whim just yet.

 

[agere_contra]

It isn’t Free Trade that’s driving manufacturing jobs overseas.

Massive corporate taxation, limitless legal vulnerability, crushing environmental regulation and pro-Union arbitrary Government: these are why industry chooses to locate away from the USA.

Protectionism would be the final nail in the coffin. The last vestiges of American industry would be turned into feather-bedded welfare cases, and freeborn Americans would be forced to buy their stuff from the Government store.

Protectionism will also increase Government power. The Dems will collect all of that lovely tariff money and spend it on union pension bailouts or some damn thing.

America has tied its own hands behind its back with a ludicrous knot of EPA regulations, crushing taxation and arbitrary Government (just ask Gibsons guitars).

America needs to untie those knots - not wrap itself up in more of them in a fit of misplaced faux-patriotic anger.