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To: neutrino
A critical distinction exists between "free trade" and "fair trade". If your statement refers to fair trade, then we are in agreement.

Free trade is what exists between Georgia and Florida. Are you for or against free trade?

19 posted on 06/02/2004 6:38:34 AM PDT by Gunslingr3
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To: Gunslingr3
Are you for or against free trade?

Between states of the United States, I am for it.

Between nations, I am against it.

Between the U.S. and China, I am utterly and absolutely opposed to it.

The originator of free trade, a self-taught economist named David Ricardo, died in 1823. I see no reason to subordinate U.S. economic security to a 19th century amateur economist's misbegotten ideals.

24 posted on 06/02/2004 6:46:37 AM PDT by neutrino (Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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