coventrygull
the right one
This is rubbish, jobs have always gone abroad, the issue is the creation of new jobs you just cant freeze time. The selective exclusion of foreign goods is a fantacy. It would spark a trade war, protectionism and even greater poverty(for BNP supporters), it is also illeagal under international trade agreements and would lead to our expulsion from the G20, Gatt, the UN security Council and quite probably NATO as well. Its isolationist paranoia.
Free trade is where Obama's isolationism becomes explicit. It's one of the few principles on which most economists from right to left agree. But in an effort to appeal to activists and unions who dislike globalization and transnational corporations, Obama outbid Hillary in his skepticism about trade liberalization. He's not about to go back to the high tariffs of the Smoot-Hawley era, but as the Wall Street Journal put it, "On the record so far, Mr. Obama is the most protectionist U.S. Presidential candidate in decades."
Its Ok for the Americans then?