I think that the post that you're responding to is a massive troll, and you generally make good points in refuting them, but I have one nitpick: >> India expor

I think that the post that you're responding to is a massive troll, and you generally make good points in refuting them, but I have one nitpick: >> India exports it's poverty to the world > This is just misguided and racist. This is misguided, but not racist. It's a common fallacy to assume that "Country x does y" means that you're making a statement about the dominant ethnic group in country x. It's just not true - a country is not the same as any of the races in it. ("No birthright citizenship for Indian H1B's" on the other hand - yeah I agree, that's just racist) Separately, reading your points in the rest of your comment, it seems like your point is "it's ok if people from another country come in and depress the standard of living if it makes the US better" (e.g. "Second, even if it were exporting its poverty, so what - it has benefit to us by making American companies stronger.") I don't think that the majority of Americans would be happy with that trade, nor is it appropriate for a government ostensibly run in the interests of the people to make that trade. (if the government was run in the interests of the companies, then that'd be a different story, and it'd be entirely within their charter to do so) I can pretty confidently project that the majority of Americans would rather America be slightly weaker in the global economy in exchange for a significant improvement in quality of life than the other way around.