Solution to jobs and manufacturing being lost to cheap labor over seas.

The trade deficit and the loss of manufacturing jobs are one in the same. One must understand one in order to understand the other and the negative results of both. I had to devote a whole round in order to educate people as to why we have a trade deficit in order to provide the logic for the topic of the debate. If one looks at at the topic in a tunnel vision point of view it would make perfect sense to agree with my opponent on every count that he makes. But one must take into account what our leaderships intentions are and what type of environment it is going to create for business in this country. This is the "REALITY" that I speak of. The current leadership is making it's intentions perfectly clear. It is going to convert the US into a socialist/communist country. It has taken over the banking system and the automobile industry. The automobile industry will fail as the govt can now tell it what kinds of cars to build and of course no one one will want them overseas, as they will be the biggest piles of crap to ever come of an American car makers production line. Now that the govt has taken over the banking industry it has begun to print worthless counterfeit money that will all but destroy the value of the dollar to overseas investors. No one is going to want anything to do with this country as it will begin to nationalize industries right and left to keep them afloat. Foreign investors are going to call loans due and payable in droves as the govt prints more and more worthless money. The US will of course not be able to pay these loans and all of the foreign investors and trade partners will all suffer huge losses and a world depression will ensue. No one will be importing or exporting anything. It is said that when the US sneezes the world gets a cold. Now to the logic of the title of this debate: In order to protect our nation and to limit the devastating effects of the coming world depression: Since the new govt is going to turn the US into a socialist/communist country it will have to tax private business at double triple or more than it currently does in order to provide cradle to grave welfare for everyone in this country. This of course will cause businesses to go under right and left and unemployment will sky rocket. The govt of course will just print more money and hand checks out to the unemployed and create work projects that again will be paid for with more worthless money. This will lead to a world depression guaranteed 100%. My opponent agrees that a trade deficit can not continue forever. Under the current new govt nothing will be done to alleviate this problem as they don't even know why it is happening. This to will ultimately lead to a world depression if the US goes bankrupt and is unable to pay for it's imports. To correct my opponent The US is the worlds largest "IMPORTER" not "EXPORTER" The US is the 5th largest exporter and that standing is going to get lower and lower as business after business is taxed into oblivion. This in turn will cripple the rest of the world because Americans will have no money to buy the products that foreign countries import. This situation gives my plan all the leverage it needs. To refute my opponents arguments: The legal issue: If a foreign company sells a product in this country it must agree that the ownership of the company that manufactured the product or products appear in a US court and defend itself against any liability lawsuits field by anyone in this country as any domestic company would have to. A refusal to do so would result in a tariff or banishment of said product or service being sold in this country just as any domestically made product would. My opponent thinks this is an insurmountable obstacle. I will say how come a US business can do it but a foreign business can't. What are they retarded, are they some how unable to understand, are they crippled and can't make it to the court room, Can't speak English? we will get an interpreter. How does this hinder or stop trade, unless of course the person or company wants to import tainted or unsafe products like China and Taiwan does just to name two. You don't have to export the US legal system as my opponent suggests. Product liability starts the minute it enters the country. If a country wants to poison it's own people like China does fine. But if they intend to ship that same poison to this country they should be the ones to be sued not the store that sold it like it is now. The store bought it in good faith and paid for it. I can see no reason why this is an insurmountable obstacle. OSHA or employee safety and benefits: Germany which has much higher manufacturing costs and employee benefits than the US which by the way "IS" the worlds largest exporter in the world has no problem with this requirement as all of the EU does to. Again, it is the third world communists nations that we are not suppose to be doing business with that are the biggest abusers of this aspect. Ironically they are are largest importers. So much for human rights huh. I want to puke every time I here a politician cry about human rights in this country and then make deals with countries that could care less about it. So this requirement only affects the people we are not even suppose to be doing trade with essentially under human rights laws. These very same countries import virtually nothing from this country. The oil issue: We get most of our oil from the middle east, These countries are very rich and the employees that produce the oil are paid very handsomely to do so. It is an absolute must that safety guide lines be followed as the danger that goes with it needs no explanation. My opponent suggests that the country as a whole must observe and operate like the US or nothing can be imported. This is just not the case. If my opponent wants to make the case that civil rights issues that don't measure up to the US would stop the importation from those countries that abuse their people he is right. We should not import anything from these countries until they change their ways. Why should the US bear the burden of providing a total loop sided trade agreement with these countries? Why is it the US's responsibility to see to it that the American worker take it on the chin to prop up a country that kills and murdered it's own people while it sucks up the profits from all of the slave labor and gives nothing back to it's people. But instead builds up massive militaries that will one day be used against us, as we flounder into oblivion because we as a nation won't be able to manufacture anything anymore. What are we going to do? Throw information and computers at them. We are so dependent on other nations for almost everything we use on a daily bases, it would be so easy for any country to just stop importing to us and we would topple like a stack of bricks in a very short time as we are totally unprepared for just such and inevitable event. We as a nation have decimated our ability to tool up and produce on a moments notice if need be. And believe me that day will come, it is an absolute, history will repeat itself as no one in govt knows what a history book is let alone reads them. None of these is insurmountable and most of the countries of this world meet or exceed the requirements with regard to importing goods into this country. Would the third world socialist/communist nations get mad and retaliate? Probably so. So what, they are not the main export companies that buy our products. They are to poor to buy them. They pretty much steal and pirate all of our patents anyways and make the things we would export them selves much cheaper using slave labor. Would it hurt them? yes, if they refuse to take legal responsibility for selling inferior products in this country. Just look at the latest pile of crap that China has sent us. Continued in comment section........