Sometimes nations need protectionism.
dear, protecting a nation from competition makes it less competitive and more crippled.
want to write that 100 times each day until it sinks in??
I have a thread on this in the economy forums. Go check it out.
Because I am pretty sure when we were using protectionism for 150 years it was our biggest growth in history. Also, see Japan. But take it to my thread
idiotic, America was born trading with England and the entire world is now switching to it. ITs seems only America has so many stupid people who lack the IQ to understand something so simple. Here's the golden rule:
the more with whom you trade the richer you get no matter if they are across the street or across the world; the fewer with whom you trade the poorer you get. If you could not trade at all you'd have to make everything yourself and so starve to death or live a subsistence life style. Hence, the more with whom you trade the richer you get no matter if they are across the street or across the world.
Moreover, its exactly as Richard Nixon once said, "our goods have to be world class if we want to be a world class country". Imagine how backward our industry would be if it did not have to compete in the globalized market place? Our cars would be like soviet car were, i.e., you had to use a dip stick to check how much gasoline you had and back them up hill because carburetors were gravity fed. This is what the liberals, in effect, propose because they lack the ability to understand free trade.