Katherine Mangu-Ward doesn't think jobs in America are more valuable than jobs in China

Megan McArdle of The Atlantic is on her honeymoon, leaving her blog in the hands of libertarians even more extremist and lunatic than she is [1]. One of those is Katherine Mangu Ward of Reason Magazine who, referring to a U.S. ironing board factory that was propped up with tariffs, says [2]:

Econ 101 aside, though, there's a more compelling moral reason to condemn this kind of tariff that should help break deadlocks like Matt's: Jobs lost at home are usually jobs created elsewhere, typically in poorer countries. If anything, jobs are likely to be gained when an industry moves to China, where more aspects of the manufacturing and assembly process are done by hand. They just won't be created here. If that's your focus, you have to make the case that American jobs are intrinsically better or more valuable than Chinese jobs.

Libertarians - at least of the Beltway variety - are globalists. They have little or no loyalty to their fellow citizens. For the ideologues among them, their loyalty is to their aberrant ideology and their skewed vision of the market. For others, it's simply to whoever cuts their checks such as the Koch family. Note that even some libertarians call Mangu-Ward on her statement, but try finding a libertarian leader doing the same.

[1] Another prime guest-blogger is Timothy Lee of the Cato Institute; see this and note that he since promoted an illegal alien taking a Harvard education from a U.S. citizen:
theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/06/
eric-balderas-and-the-rule-of-law/58488

[2] theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/06/
the-last-ironing-board-to-die-for-a-mistake/58602/