Amen sister.
When is the west going to get this show on the road then and stop talking about austerity in places like greece, Ireland and Portugal somehow being the answer?
It's time for a protectionist western block. The West's people simply can not compete with the vast hordes of slave labour and the autocratic capitalism of places like China and India (where protectionism exists already) so why bother?
As Marla Daniels says 'you can not lose if you do not play'.