>>Sure. Ask any customs officer. Like it or not, the free markets in the United States created the greatest technological advances of mankind. Actually that's

>>Sure. Ask any customs officer. Like it or not, the free markets in the United States created the greatest technological advances of mankind. Actually that's immigration. And sure Ask any customs officer. >>China has nothing on that. Very true. >>Some lousy chip makers and cheap labour won't be able to compete with anything done in the US. China's trade work in Eurasia and Africa is changing the trade scenario rapidly. In a sense China is creating a market for local economies in Eurasia and Africa, so that local institutions can grow and work with each other. Its kind of strange, the US could have had all of that trade empire for 1/10 the cost of wars and invasions in the past decades. China offers an alternate foreign policy framework, and its working to a large extent. Again the US economy in many ways, is just the economy of a few cities, and immigration matters big time. Not just for the US economy, but if those people chose to stay in their countries its a negative to US as they create competition for the US.