I agree with carlsbadworker and paranoid. The topic is trade imbalance. We buy more than we sell. To fix this we need to buy less foreign stuff, or sell more domestic stuff internationally.

If you believe in a free market, you will not buy something simply because it’s domestic. You will buy it because it makes sense. It doesn’t make sense that a product produced here should cost more than the same product produced somewhere else, that had to travel a long distance and pay tariffs on top.

It doesn’t make sense to complain that foreign countries don’t buy our cars, when we produce cars too big to fit on their narrow roads and too gas hungry (we still pay less for gas than most other countries). Foreign car companies have designed cars specifically for our roads. We have not designed cars for their roads thus cannot expect them to buy our cars.

My choice to fix the trade imbalance would be to competitively produce more. Then you’re sure to have people here whining about the pollution caused by the factories (have you been to any of the foreign cities where they produce all our goods? Smog smog smog).

Anyhow, this is all very simplistic and laughable IMO.