| This animosity towards China, and other Asian nations | | | | barriers to entry, government intervention, and |
| over trade is quite overblown by US companies and | | | | corrupt dealings at the WTO (World Trade |
| politicians who claim "foul play" and not because | | | | Organization) we ought to look in our own mirrors at |
| those nation's aren't bending the rules, because | | | | every level of our so-called free market. The reality |
| clearly they are, which has created a severe | | | | is we are not living up to our own standards and |
| imbalance, but because we are no better here at | | | | thus, we have no business condemning others. And, |
| home. You see for years we've been doing the same | | | | do realize I am a proud American, and do not enjoy |
| thing in nearly every single market big and small; in | | | | the Asian nations who purposely restrict our goods |
| cities, counties, and states across the nation and | | | | and services, but as an entrepreneur, it's nothing |
| thus, we speak in hypocrisy as we condemn these | | | | new, we are busy doing it to ourselves in fact. |
| Asian nations. | | | | Indeed, these other nations which fail to participate in |
| And really it's not that they have be stellar trading | | | | a win-win free and fair trade situation will only have |
| partners, as we have seen abuses in China, Japan, | | | | temporary gains at our expense, and if they continue |
| Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea and the | | | | this unbalance they will lose in the end, and we lose |
| rest. But I can tell you this after franchising my | | | | too. In this case we merely stop trading. That's |
| business in 23-states in the USA that the | | | | what's happening in our own economy. I think it's |
| protectionism, fiefdoms, randomly enforced | | | | time everyone read Adam Smith's comments, Ayn |
| regulations, political influences, and barriers in every | | | | Rand's books, and DiLorenzo's comments on "How |
| industry and sector in America are so blatantly | | | | Capitalism Saved America," because, it's apparent |
| contrived that anyone participating knows it is a giant | | | | that we speak in hypocrisy and thus, we have no |
| corrupt game. | | | | moral high ground to be speaking. Please consider all |
| So, before we go and condemn currency | | | | this. |
| manipulation, dumping, anti-trust, taxes 7 tariffs, | | | | |