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I think the real difference between us is that you believe America has boundless wealth and strength, and I believe no matter how great it is, this land and its current people (no matter what race they are) needs to be conserved and defended like a precious commodity. It's easy to get overconfident when your country seems to be riding on the top of the world.

I think you have summed up our 2 opposing philosophies perfectly. I believe what makes America great is her freedom, and her people. It is our freedom that allows new innovations and new marketable products. I'm not worried about cheap labor, because I won't work that cheaply. I love cheap manufactured goods made in China...especially the ones that return pennies for tons of pollution. The future is in information and services not manufactured goods. What services? What information? I don't know but think about this... Karl Rove probably got paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for advice(information) the 2000 campaign employed commercial creators (services) and the campaigns raised $2.25 billion raised by federal candidates.

Don't like politics? Lets try sports I've got 2 dozen sports channels on digital cable. Satellite owners have even more and when very high bandwidth internet becomes standard the sources for sports entertainment and information will be too numerous to count. Besides the shows think about the hats, jerseys, magazines, fantasy teams, trading cards.

Let China make the trading cards as long as American truckers ship them, American stores sell them, and American governments tax them.

America is only limited by Americans with no vision. That is not Dubya.