Peru and Other Menaces

Last Wednesday, when the Dow dropped 360.92 points, 132 members of the House of Representatives—116 of them Democrats, including a majority of committee chairmen and three fourths of the party's freshmen—voted to protect America from Peru's economic might. That country's GDP ($186.6 billion) is smaller than Connecticut's ($204.1 billion); its $8.8 billion worth of exports to America are an imperceptible drop in the enormous bucket of America's $13 trillion economy.