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Economic nationalism, i.e. protecting industry through high tariffs, made America an economic superpower. The stuff Lou dobbs talks about, hardly laissez faire capitalism.(that and slavery) Same with the Brits before us.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_System_(economic_system)

sorry
here is the link

This is good as well.

btw, Rob. The White Stripes are in Fargo in Sept. You planning on going?

Minnesota would be so lucky to match the GDP of Norway.

Economic nationalism, i.e. protecting industry through high tariffs, made America an economic superpower.

Wrong.  Protectionism, along with trade unionism, killed several of our industries, most notably our steel industry.  Free people making free choices and private ownership and control of capital made the US an economic superpower.

If you don’t know by now, don’t mess with it.

Krikey...Argentina???...Can we Michiganders get a do over for a new country name?. Hmmph.

Is that Vermont with the GDP of Bangladesh?

A troll is someone who only wants to stir up trouble, not have an honest debate.  Some signs that a poster is a troll:
* Dodges questions from other posters * Refuses to give sources
* When one of its arguments is shown to be false, either ignores the proof or moves the goalposts.  Heh. (From the LGF faq)

Isn’t Vermont the home of our only socialist Senator Bernie Sanders? And isn’t Sparkie from Bangla...er, Vermont, too?

A troll is someone who only wants to stir up trouble, not have an honest debate.  Some signs that a poster is a troll:
* Dodges questions from other posters * Refuses to give sources
* When one of its arguments is shown to be false, either ignores the proof or moves the goalposts.  Heh. (From the LGF faq)

Proof, I’m outraged!

That’s us proud Granite Staters being compared with Bangladesh. Vermont is the Dominican Republic!

Them’s fighting words, beard-boy…

J.

According to Graeme’s wiki link, the high tariffs he cites ended before the major expansion of US industry.  I agree 100% with Robert108 that tariffs and other government interference in the market place were the main culprits in the demise of US steel…

This map is interesting, but most notable for the countries that are NOT listed, because they couldn’t fit.

I’d be interested in seeing a new version showing, just as one example, how many States we’d have to merge to equal the GDP of China…

China, Russia, Italy, England, etc…

[Feet make good soup!]

Marty:

I’d be interested in seeing a new version showing, just as one example, how many States we’d have to merge to equal the GDP of China…

That depends on whether we use the science fiction numbers published by the PRC or the real world numbers.

China, France and England have comparable GDPs btw with Italy being someplace slightly behind, and Russia is already on the map,

Graeme, sorry I’m just getting back to this thread:

btw, Rob. The White Stripes are in Fargo in Sept. You planning on going?

My goodness, I’d love too...but I just don’t think it’s in my budget to go.  Kills me to say that.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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