Maybe. But you know what really makes us less able to compete with the Chinese? Higher wages and stronger workplace safety rules. Tougher environmental laws. A strong and freely traded currency. The absence of a police state that can crush the slightest hint of trade unionism. A relative dearth of prison labor. By Brown's logic, we should do away with all of these, because nothing should drive domestic policy like the need to economically compete with China.

Fucking tool.