It almost doesn't matter what the topic is, the argument may already be lost. We've already established there is little national virtue left. We're now just talking about the price.

If we're losing jobs and the Chinese are losing jobs, where are they going?

What is not acceptable, what is a non-starter, is the notion that we can dispense with the law.

I stood on the bridge; I stood right there on the bridge looking down at the Rio Grande River, and what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a Mexican gentleman who had started himself a ferryboat service.