Backlash from WTO? Bring it ON!
We import six times as much as we export, so we win any trade war by stopping our present losses.
My solution is 100% inspection of imports - paid by the importers. We've had enough of toxic drywall, poisoned pet food and toothpaste, fatally tainted Heparin, and on and on. Aren't you finding the same in your imports?
Even before the foreign devils devastated our Gulf Coast last month, we were importing 80% of our seafood, with less than 1% inspection. Alabama inspects all imported seafood, and rejects over half, due to toxins, antibiotics, etc., in fish that are raised in raw sewage and other foul fluids.
Alabama doesn't have much going for it, except safe seafood. I'm sure it's not that, but the cheap labor that's attracting EADS. Oil goo and hurricanes better be factored in to the cost.
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