"The GOP is fortunate its opponent in 2004 is John F. Kerry, who is as clueless as they are on the new world economy that has been designed, and is operating, to loot America of her patrimony."
Of course the problem is that where black and white thinking doesn't work, subtlety and nuance must be adopted.. The Occam's Razor rule that the simplest solution is preferable has been tried and it failed, in terms of free trade.. So we have to punt and move to an approach that is the simplest, yet which deals with all the issues of the problem.
This kind of approach does not fit the 5 second sound byte very well, so it will be necessary to create simple metaphors that encapsulate the basic ideas. The concept of an economic membrane, or skin, is not too difficult to digest or communicate.
The challenge will be to determine what we let in and what we block. The interesting thing about membranes is that they often have gradients, that change the rate of flow of one substance through them. Those gradients change as conditions change on either side of the membrane. If there's no salt on one side of the membrane, and a lot of salt on the other, then salt can easily move through that membrane. But as salt levels build up on the other side, then less salt will move through. Balances develop. Those balances can be moderated by other factors. This could apply to products coming into or out of the US, to jobs being outsourced, to ecologic regulations, greenhouse gases... the possibilities are endless. The point is, that with a membrane model, balances and interactions can be addressed, where, in a no-walls, totally open free market model, there are no rules of balance.
Economic growth, even explosive economic growth, that occurs at the same time that millions of jobs are being lost is a result of an experiment gone awry-- a globalism economics counterpart to chernobyl. It will take vision, leadership and out-of the-box thinking to harness the energy of the wild economic growth that is failing to help solve the jobs problem.
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