And Beagle, these guys aren't libs. They are paleos. They just think like libs. One, while complaining about the U.S./S. Korea Free Trade Agreement the other day, asked how much the S. Koreans pay for our defense. So I asked him, how much more he was willing to pay for a HDTV to make up for it. He never responded. It's that crystal-clear logic that I mentioned in my comment #53: my taxes need to be raised for my own good, by people who know better than I.
Just like I need to pay more for imported kimchi because my counterpart in Korea isn't paying more for my defense.
Please don't take the fact that I don't reply to you in what you feel is a timely manner as my acceptance of your point, that it is valid, or that it is even coherent.
The only thing it is evidence of is that I have a life outside of FR.
To the point at hand; Yes, on the whole the Korean trade deal is a good thing though it was long overdue.
My point is 50,000 young Americans died to give the South Koreans their political and economic freedoms and we're sitting there 50 years later discussing whether the cars the US exports will be made to Korean or US safety standards.
This just accentuates the trade patsies the US has become. Much of the trade deficit is because of our reluctance to force open the markets of those who sell to us.
Awesome.