This country could not survive in the future if it didn't trade. It was not without trade in the 19th or 20th centuries. The question is not whether or not to engage in the world economy, it's how to do it well.
So, if those of you that chose to abstain from buying imports, eat (especially vegetables or fruit), drive a car, watch TV, go to the movies, travel by air, or possibly do any other thing I can think of, will just stop doing all those things and you can be "import free".
Not practicable? Maybe better to learn how to be better at international trade than the next country? Ya think?
The US is slipping rapidly in the standings for educational levels of our population as compared to other countries. That's a bad thing, maybe a precursor of the economic future awaiting the US. Our standing is not other countries fault, it's our own.
