China has passed the United States in exports

When I was a kid, I generally believed that the United States was the greatest country on God's green earth.

I remember my father, who was very proud of his Italian heritage, telling me that we were blessed to have been born the freest, strongest, and best country in the world. He told me so many times that we lived in the most perfect human society men had ever been able to construct. And Dad told me that the United States should be the best at everything in the world and that America's people, through their right actions, could assure as much.

But America has a weakness. We are too good, too fair, and too trusting.

According to a World Trade Organization report, China, a communist nation, which regularly suppresses freedom, has pasted the United States as the world's second largest exporter. This is a blow to freedom, a blow to American pride, and American people through their right actions should do something about it.

This first appeared in the General Issues Blog.