I HATE life in the UK!! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !

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I'd trade with your government social assistance program any day though as well as your medical system. It's better than in North America that's for sure.

What I sometimes think we need is a government willing to put a 500% tax on all products made in China...

That sounds like a cool idea! You should try that Joe, IMO.

Local products made from local people?? Who ever heard of such nonsense!!

I don't advocate autarky -- I'm just recognizing that government budget deficits are to a large degree caused by trade deficits. (Note that unlike in Greece, the debt problems of Spain and Ireland started in the private sector, and only became a government problem due to bank bailouts).

Why should we tolerate high unemployment being dumped on us by mercantilist countries like China (and to a lesser extent, Germany and Japan)?

Of course, the other main cause of trade deficits is oil imports -- we should build some of those "Green Freedom" machines that Los Alamos has looked into (nuclear reactors that make motor fuels from water and atmospheric CO2) to do something about this...

^^^ Easy now, I was just razzing... This belongs in another thread. (One I'd happily participate in, even if I don't know the buzzwords some groupies like to throw around...)