During the 150 year era before we threw open our market to the tax free entry by producers of the world, we were a nation of high tariffs. Laws passed during virtually the entirety of the history of the United States were designed for a country of tariffs.
Unions, taxes and Child Labor laws would NOT be feasible or even possible in a nation without tariffs as they would increase the cost of manufacturing. America wasn’t designed to compete with the world to have the lowest price products. America was designed to have the best jobs and the best chance to own your own business.
Free trade means either the destruction of America or completely rewriting all the laws to make us competitive.
Americans foolishly thought they could compete with the world in every way. The Bible aptly states that “Pride goeth before a fall”.
America perhaps could have competed with the world if she didn’t give away her technology. Had we kept robotic technology in this country, we could have kept manufacturing in this country. Then we could have been competitive.
Manufacturing jobs are fun. Owning your own business is fun. Engineering is fun. Giving therapy to people as they do in Scientology is fun. Being a professional athlete or movie star is fun.
Being a lawyer, politician, judge or policeman would NOT be fun for me; my ethics would be compromised. Furthermore, they are boring. Owning stock is boring. Paying taxes is boring. Watching TV is usually boring. The United States of America is boring even when it is not failing.
America should rebound from this latest recession. We have borrowed sufficient money to do so. We have thrown gas on the economic fire. We must take this next economic upturn to re-institute tariffs or America will go into a recession from which it shall never recover. America will be owned by others. America will be taken over and all useless Americans bussed away to parts unknown.