Such relabeling is reminiscent of pro-abortionists calling themselves "pro-choice."
LOL!
This is hilarious.
You're not the one trying to force your beliefs on others. It's those damn abortionists, forcing everyone to have an abortion, whether they want one or not!
As a non-interventionist; I don't agree with this, and that is the difference between isolationism and non-interentionism. The reason I think isolationism doesn't work is lack of trade and diplomacy. Non-interventionism on the other hand does not encompass those same protectionist measures. IMO, if you want to have a humble foreign policy and at the same time have some peaceful infuence around the world, you need the leverage that trade and diplomacy can get you. On the other end of the extreme; for example, if you want everyone to hate you and want to destroy you, you can go around starting wars while not using diplomacy or engaging in free trade.
Yup.
We're broke because our jobs went to other countries.
Nope. Unemployment can't be shown to have a correlative relationship to outsourcing (or however one might wish to characterize it), much less a causal effect.
In fact, as manufacturing jobs move to other countries, they are replaced by better, non-manufacturing-based jobs (for example, R&D and the like).
Read about Frederick Taylor and his time and motion studies. The modern factory is basically a system, the main object of which is to convert human workers into machines, drones if you will. Drones who do not challenge, question, innovate, or progress. This is what we have, you know,
actual machines for. There are better uses to put American ingenuity to.
Do you really want to hedge your economy forever on manufacturing jobs? Do you want your kids to be dependent upon that in an age when machines can do any simple manufacturing task better and cheaper than humans can?
That is foolish. There are ways to create value without "manufacturing" things. For example, Apple Computer easily creates more value designing gadgets (here in the US, I might add), than do the Chinese (etc.) who own the plants which make Apple products. What to build without a constant stream of new ideas?
We don't need more factory drones, too tired to do anything but sleep after a shift. We need educated individuals who can keep us on the cutting edge of technological progress. Building stuff ain't gonna cut it.
And anyway, we do build stuff where it is economically viable. Hyundai builds plants in the US, as do Honda, Toyota, etc (while the subsidized beneficiaries of protectionist policy outsource to Mexico, I might add).
America is stronger because we have largely moved on from the rather bleak prospect of working in manufacturing jobs.
If we are broke, it is because parasitic, overblown government can't put a leash on its productivity-grabbing long enough to trim its fat and provide a value-adding service (which is what it is -- or should be -- all about) for the first time in a century.