re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They dream of being able to export goods and amass a trade surplus…

They’re dreaming. America is no longer positioned to be an exporter of manufactured consumer goods like clothing, shoes, and household bric-a-brac.

re: #152 Belafon

And was that way before both world wars. The business party has always been isolationist.

My thought exactly. Roosevelt fought hard to enter WWII and had failed until the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.