This recession is seen as America's "fault", through the sub-prime mortgage crisis and other issues of corporate irresponsibility and fraud. The damage to the whole world's financial system has spread like a tsunami.

NOW, the USA wants to pretend that it is an island, alone, and can shut its doors to the world to protect its own workers.

There are workers across the whole world, desperate for food. If the USA institutes protectioniust measures, after causing all this trouble, then there will be a deep and long-lasting resentment.

If the USA shares in the pain of the world, it will gain many friends.