Jason Rines (iThinkBig)

BRIC Is for Real

America spearheaded globalization and we run it as we run all domestic business, as a business. This means giant gobs of offshoring and outsourcing and it means at the expense of American jobs/infrastructure. This is only wrong when those in charge do not appropriately tax multinational corporations whom get benefits of being an American company but have no envrionmental or cheap labor restrictions.

It indeed is the job of the Congress and Administration to ensure we have fair trade provisions in place. Our objective should be to trade as a partner with evereone on the globe and give incentives to some, tariffs on others. This current Congress is a joke and the current Administration has absolutely zero leverage over the ME to influence oil.

Becoming energy independent is a MUST, but I see 18 cent gas tax holidays only and of course it's just prior to election season. The biggest political mouths in Washington are stuck on global warming, limiting our ability to create our own energy while expecting those around the globe will play fair and always develop clean energy sources while competing in the global market. This is foolish, elitist thought process from individuals whom do not bother conducting global research to at least how the United States can ever compete economically as it once did. You compete in a market by giving the customer what it wants to grow, right now that is energy, food and metals. Exporting more food and metal relies on cost-efficient energy. I feel our nation will slowly go down the cliff and be 10 feet from earth before opening the parachute. Such is the nature of our overburdening legal and political system.