That's true enough as far as the student body goes, but the point is the university bureaucracy is corrupted by PC nonsense. Let's face it, how many conservative leaning people grow up wanting to be bureaucrats? Most I know would rather be working in the private sector or running a business of their own. But there are lots of left leaning people who love the comfort of a secure job where they get to boss people around. That's the point of the article, not that these are average students running the show, but they are the ones more likely to want to work for the IRS.

"Whatever jobs were lost in manufacturing (if any), would come back 100 times over in other jobs." A bunch of McJobs to replace higher paying ones that were offshored. Welcome to Wal-Mart, try to find something made in the USA...

Obama's right everyone. There's no such thing as tyranny, there's just the government doing great things! And if you find yourself irrelevant to, or *gasp* in opposition of those great things then you are irrelevant to the government greatness. Yes we can! But not you individually, you can't.

It's true that tariffs can be harmful, obviously it isn't an all or nothing black or white issue.

Which less protected markets are you referring to? Where is the shining example of the country that has outsourced most of it's manufacturing base and is running sky high trade deficits year after year? I think Pat understands this issue just fine, he simply doesn't agree with you.

The USA had tariffs for a long time and benefitted quite well from them, in fact they used to completely fund the federal government, so I reject the notion that no one benefits from "protectionism" it can be done. And ironically the auto industry used to be an example of an industry that produced high income jobs.

Paolo3: "Free trade benefits both sides of the bargain. Otherwise, the trade would not take place. " I think this is the problem that I have with the "free trade" crowd, it's the old forrest for the trees problem. The fact is that these trades don't exist in a vacuum as simple two party transactions, there are other interests involved in maintaining stable societies. Short term market forces may dictate that a simple exchange with sweat shop workers half a world away benefits both the consumer and the worker, but what happens once unemployment rises substantially in the USA as has been happening? Is everyone still benefitting once taxes have to rise to pay for assistance programs for people who can no longer support themselves? There...

There are good reasons for tariffs, quite frankly "free trade" with bangladesh is pointless for the USA because the people there are not buying US made goods, the only purpose is to drive US jobs out of the country. It is a textbook case of where tariffs are useful.

I'm not sure I accept your numbers, but I think the argument could easily be made that I'd pay higher prices if there was a substantial dent in unemployment numbers, with American workers getting decent wages because this would reduce dependence on government programs, and allow for people to build wealth on their own which is important for a healthy middle class.

So long as people need money to live then there needs to be some way for them to make that money or society has a real problem. Here is the question that I always have trouble getting an answer for: If all of the low skilled jobs get pushed overseas then what are the people who used to rely on those jobs supposed to do for money?