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Old 2011-10-04, 00:09   Link #16987
Vexx
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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Age: 66
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Originally Posted by DonQuigleone View Post
I think tariffs should be imposed on countries who are using unethical methods to outcompete the USA (namely China), but it's not a long term solution.

Germany exists in a free trade block with many undevelopped countries (IE the EU), and yet it still has one of the largest trade surplusses in the world, with no jobs "leaving the country". America just needs to invest more in it's infrastructure and work with light, medium and heavy industry, rather then prostituting itself to services (Banking...).

If Germany can do it, certainly America can.
Germany just seems to be working in many ways that the US isn't .... but half our population's brains just stop when "european socialism" is suggested as a place where good ideas might come from.
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