Here’s one way freedom promotes economic success, FTA: “Bangladesh’s poverty reduction strategy centered on women’s empowerment. In 1991, Bangladesh had one of the lowest educational attainment levels for girls. A pioneering school stipend program for poor rural girls—later replicated in Mexico, Cambodia, and other countries—made Bangladesh among the first few developing countries to achieve gender parity in secondary school enrollment.”
Why are we even maintaining diplomatic relations with China? Because we’re afraid of them? Make them afraid of us. Cut off all trade agreements. Let them wither on the vine of communistic economic failure.
You got that right; their leadership is an ongoing disaster. I was born in Durban, left when I was two, so don’t remember it. Have no interest in going back.
It should happen. Better than submit to their tyranny. There are plenty of more trading partners than the anemic Chinese and Russian economic disasters.
I wish we were the ones taking on the space station program instead of relying on the International Space Station. For scientific as well as national security purposes.
What’s next? Rounding up everyone opposed to illegal aliens flooding into our country? This incident is a touchstone to the issue of whether this nation’s leadership is willing to, or capable of, protecting this nation’s borders: one of its most essential obligations. If leadership isn’t up to the task, it should be discarded.