Ha! Even away from the playground, you're still getting taken to school but aren't aware enough to realize it.

Your objection is the Big Lie that you’ve memorized and recited too well.

Where have we seen this deferment of freedom for business before the Third World picked the practice up?

Americans don’t “lose jobs” to China. Rates of employment & unemployment are largely independent of international trade.
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If that drives Navarro to some sort of military job, so be it.

The matter is that we lose work to those Third World nations. They smooth over trade by removing freedom and encouraging corruption.

No, I think I'll always remain idealistic and insist that our own government retaliate against any perceived unfairness by meddling in the market as well…you know, to level the playing field. You might not be all the bright so I'll tell you now that this was my way of projecting and creating a caricature of something that MAY be one of your hairbrained ideas.

The Treasury is not forced to do anything of the sort, Mike. The federal government COULD cut spending. Where's YOUR screaming for spending cuts, Mike? Is this an indication of where your agenda lies?

Would love some discourse on this!

Any smart ten year olds in your household?

Also explain how China’s (deliberate) undervalued currency helps their consumers — both business and end item users who could probably get much lower cost consumption if their imported items were as cheap as you think they should be.

“Ignore the question of whether or not Beijing’s commitment to peg the yuan to the dollar really is currency manipulation. ”

This IS the question. So why ignore it? The answer is fairly simple. It IS manipulation. The impact is tremendous. Why ignore a fact with a tremendous impact relevant to the issue at hand? Why kind of thinking this is?

I am fascinated how capitalism seems to be making strides in Asia while losing ground in the west. The Chinese should agree to float the yuan with the proviso that the American government’s entire gold holdings be sold to them. Not sure this is actually a good idea for China, but I would love to learn what the administrations response to this would be.

This one-sided view of free-markets has been vividly supported by neocons as a means of achieving a solid alliance with China against other fronts at the expense of American jobs and prosperity.

I do not see many of those who are screaming free trade to also scream for free exchange rates. This may be an indications they have a hidden agenda.
To me there is nothing worse from a hidden agenda supported with all sorts of sophistry and twisting of reality. It is the lowest level of intellectual discourse one could get to.

Congratulations for rushing in where so many others fear to tread, and crossing swords with Monsieur Boudreaux, the greatest swordsman in all of France.

But I hate to tell you this. Your head is rolling around on the floor.

, which is more than most of his subjects will do. So, while I don’t agree with you, I respect you.

I really love the plain spoken , no BS approach to your solutions. I guess it is going to take a real long depression to force Americans to awake to the reality that we are competing for jobs in a global market. Our “free” press has been of no help in explaining to the public what that means. We do not lose jobs over the cost of labor. That is one of the big lies that the unions and the media have used for years. We lose jobs overseas because we make it impossible for companies to compete due to our: highest in the world business taxes, most numerous and onerous regulations (EPA, OSHA, IRS, et. al.). Our citizens need to realize that if we want jobs that give us a good lifestyle, we need to create an environment where businesses can grow and create those jobs.