How many FEDERAL government programs are effective, efficient, and consistently cost effective & under budget?

1. Fair and Balanced Trade (not Free Trade) as a national policy. Anybody that wants to sell anything in the USA MUST buy a corresponding amount of stuff made in USA by citizens of USA.

If they don't, their cargo ships never get unloaded at our docks, they just get sent back. - And how do we measure tourism in the trade balance? Many poorer countries have no products to sell.

They obtain money by selling "tourism". If they are relegated to a "fair and balanced trade" as you suggest, then these countries (think small Caribbean countries and other island nations in the Pacific) would be wiped out. 2.

Fair Trade means no Trade Deficits at the end of every fiscal year. It comes out even. There is no net exporting of USA jobs, dollar for dollar the labor market is even, on both sides, they don't lose jobs to us, we don't lose jobs to them.

It's "fair". And it's still trade. It's Fair Trade.

A new idea! - So we will disrupt all market efficiencies and create arbitrary inefficiencies and expect this to be a good thing. 3.

Tariffs. Prior to 1916 almost all revenues raised by the Federal government came from tariffs. Nobody can say that the USA was unprosperous in the years 1787 till 1916, or that it was a Marxist nation during that time.

So tariffs would be a possibility. - Tariffs still exist. Are you suggesting something different?

4. Strong anti-dumping laws with bigtime penalties for violators. - Exactly how does this stop or reduce Globalization?

5. Strong Intellectual property laws with closing off of trade access as the penalty for patent or copyright violations -- so the Chinese can't sell us things that we invented (like wind turbines and personal computers) and steal our earned markets right out from under our citizens/workers. - And if the Chinese create their own laws that state intellectual property rights of Chinese citizens and companies is supreme in China, and all holders of inferior rights are guilty of a capital offense in China, and are subject to immediate execution.? 6. Major jailtime for all USA executives who conspire to cause unpatriotic economic activity to occur.

Just write the statutes -- make them strong, do the trials, and take these b*stards to Allenwood and lock them up in small cells for a few decades -- do that to 10,000 or 25,000 executives, and at some point senior management in America would begin to get the message, could take a decade or two. - I've seen more serious crimes committed by rank-and-file blue collar bastards than any executives I've worked with.

When your economics professor tells you globalism is good, that's not just because it's better for the global economy -- it's because it's better for our domestic economy as well. Sending jobs overseas frees up more Americans to produce goods and services that can only be produced by Americans, or in America. Those are the goods and services that will give the most value for the American dollars that will be offered by consumers in India and China. It's true that we don't know what those goods and services are yet, and that many of us are heavily invested in producing the old goods and services that are now produced elsewhere.

Nevertheless, this is the way forward. If you consider yourself progressive, this is what true progress looks like.

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