[Paul Ross]

You are in need of a remedial economics course and real history.

It is apparent you are far more in need of that than the others on this thread are. You have assumed a misleading moniker as your screen name, and should really instead be called Sinon. Your failures to meaningfully and substantively respond to the previously made historical challenge speaks volumes..and they remain not only unrefuted, but untouched by your scornful cheap retorts:

"We need to understand the implications of both. We need to understand history as well. We need to understand....
- How England's free trade policies resulted in the devastation of their manufacturing ability at the beginning of the 20th century.
- How America's and Germany's protectionist policies built our industries up.
- How collapse of world trade resulted in the great depression.
- The difference between comparative advantage and the one way transfer of production capability.
- The danger to freedom of transfering your manufacturing capacity to your known enemy (China).
- The incentives that drive corporate managers and individual firms in a free society and the role that government should play when those incentives are at odds with the best interest of the country as a whole.
- The role that government's play in establishing and maintaining competitive advantage at the national level."

I am more and more convinced that CATO needs to be taken apart root and branch, and its apostles identified as the duplicitous lie-merchants...and national enemies of America...that they are. You appear to be one of 'them'.

[Protagoras]

LOL, an attack on my sceenname and on an inconvenient think tank really cannot help you to see the three day old fish you are trying to sell. It's dead and it smells like it.

And that you advocate stifling the free speech voice of those you disagree with is quite telling about your true philosophy.

You are a hilarious break in my day, thanks for the laughs! :^}

[texastoo]

Didn't Bill Clinton make some statement about the fact that America would not be a super power in about 5 to 10 years? I, vaguely, remember him making that statement. Evidently, this is what he has been talking about. The "elite" of this country has been very busy destroying America.

[texastoo]

Didn't Bill Clinton make some statement about the fact that America would not be a super power in about 5 to 10 years? I, vaguely, remember him making that statement. Evidently, this is what he has been talking about. The "elite" of this country has been very busy destroying America.

[GOP_1900AD]

The doctinaire scions of the globalist camp, try to portray themselves as "conservatives" but they are fundamentally anti conservative. They are, behaviorally, Left wing anarchists. They are the destroyers of the nation state, and the enslavers of free men. They must be stopped, no matter what it takes.