text: You do know by hammering international trade we'll lose money, right?  That China and India market is HUGE.  Lots of opportunity for us to sell there.  With their markets growing and ours falling behind, we'll lose business opportunities.  And, arguably too much isolation (lack of competition) will have our technologies and manufacturing fall behind as well.
  
  It's an international world and economy out there.  Competition is a good thing.