[Porsche-O-Phile]

This is one area where I actually support large-scale and ruthless government restrictions on business. Companies that do this should be taxed up to their eyeballs and we should be ratcheting up tariffs and other import restrictions at the same time. And SEALING our borders. And kicking any illegal laborers in this country the hell out. And ending NAFTA. And ending our participation in "new world order" organizations like the G-20 who only undermine our economy by letting us get dragged down by third-world nations. Don't get me started.

Is that protectionism? You bet it is. And it's absolutely what's needed right now in order to get our own economic house in order. And yes, I'm familiar with the Smoot-Hawley Act of the 1930s. The situation today is different. We NEED to isolate ourselves in order to rebuild our manufacturing infrastructure (which has been deliberately and systematically stolen away by China for the last 40 years). We need to encourage trade education. We need to encourage people to build and buy domestic. We CAN NOT have a "service-only economy". It doesn't work!

I'm sorry to hear your company is doing this. I lose a lot of respect for companies that resort to these kinds of tactics and go out of my way (when/where possible) to avoid them.