Unfortunately, there is a
reason why, since the beginning of human history, we humans constructed "nations," and put borders around those nations. We imposed restrictions as to who could and who could not cross those borders, whether or not we fortified them. We built governments, and self-sufficient domestic economies (at least, as the supply of natural materials would permit).
Basically until the American Civil War
(turned ugly ...), we did not have
direct taxation: governments taxed, and regulated, businesses. Corporations did not have the legal rights of individuals: they were chartered fictions of the state.
Government was seen, both to constrain the actions of business (to force them to provide for the commoner instead of strictly their shareholders), and to provide for the "commonwealth." Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower used government to create the Interstate Highway System, and upon leaving office he referred to "fine, well-equipped hospitals," which every community
could enjoy,
and could go into!
You should not wish for this dystopian thing called "free international trade," nor should you wish for your Federal government to become a self-made pauper and to reverse its present commitments, e.g. to the aged, unless
you wish to become a pauper, yourself.
After all, after sucking this nation dry, and proving once and for all to the world community that there never actually was anything of value nor stature to this "upstart crow" that briefly materialized in North America, these people would simply continue to profit by pillaging somewhere else. (Or, maybe it would be time to start changing the face of the USA's map,
as Ambassador Zimmermann once proposed. If sufficiently eviscerated and for a long enough time, the USA would no longer possess the military capability to resist invasion. Don't overestimate the power of your vaunted battle fleets, especially from armed conflict that was started from
within, by the enemies you freely admitted through your gates because e.g. they promised to work for less. Don't underestimate your enemy's diabolical creativity and his ability to exploit you if you let him: "the collapse of the
third building on 9/11" should have taught you that much.)
If you don't understand what you have ... if you do not
value and
support what you have (and in more than just "military" ways) ... you
will one day lose it. You will lose everything. And, you will be the laughingstock of people who once respected you.
Humans created and maintained "nations" for one very simple reason: for
survival. (And, because it fundamentally was a very good idea.) Documents such as the US Constitution, specifically in its preamble, speak of a goal to ensure "domestic tranquility"
and "prosperity." Prosperity does not come from saying the kinds of things that the Ghost of Christmas Present chastised Ebenezer Scrooge for saying. Instead, it comes from the lesson that he learned.
Prosperity is not a rising tide that drowns the self-styled "less fortunate." It is a rising tide that lifts
all boats ... that lifts boats that must be
built and then
maintained. And the first lake in which they float, whether or not that lake joins a global sea, is called "a Nation."
