I think it has long-term merit when dealing with countries whose governments actively maintain a trade balance unfavorable to us (e.g. China), but it does more harm than good in the majority of cases. I can't see any benefit to restricting our trade ties to Canada, and the E.U., for example.
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And you believe Bush and the liberals and divorced parents and gays and blacks and the Christian right and fossil fuels and Xbox are all to blame, meanwhile you yourselves create an ad where your kid hits you in the head with a baseball and you don't understand the message that the problem is you.
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