Quote Originally Posted by Matin View Post
i think they're speaking chinese, and japanese, and french, and german.. russian even.

how much of america can be purchased out from underneath us before it's no longer ours. there's more than one way to wage war.

i have often marveled at how it seems that every other country in the world has import/export tariffs and laws in place that hinder foreigners from coming in and undercutting vital industries. basically in japan any cheaper american product exported to them will sell in their country for an equal or greater price.
The US has them as well - strict nationality restrictions on airline ownership, ban on using some imported metals on defense contracts (notably titanium, IIRC; I seem to remember that being a problem for Boeing recently) - and just this week I saw the French complaining about the 300% import tax on Roquefort cheese (and various other products of theirs, but the Roquefort tax was the highest and the one they complained about the most).

Indeed, a quick look at the subject will turn up dozens of cases of America imposing these restrictions: Canadian lumber, European cheese, Asian and South American shrimp, Canadian wheat, all foreign steel... Then there are all the agricultural and other subsidies: cotton, sugar, corn, the big tax breaks to Boeing (just as Europe gives them to Airbus)...