[SeminoleCounty]

Great....more Free Trade...just what we need /sarc

With the EU collapsing....Communist China now off-shoring the off-shoring the US did....and massive Trade Deficits...the US needs more Free Trade now like it needs more Islamic Terrorists collecting Food Stamps

Outside of useless economists at Liberal univesities..few are pushing Free Trade as something “positive”. free Trade does not work....and there is no evidence it does. Period

[1rudeboy]

Never thought of Ronald Reagan as a useless economist at a Liberal University . . . but there ya’ go again.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Mainland China is offshoring?

I don’t think so.

[1010RD]

free Trade does not work....and there is no evidence it does. Period

Let me submit exhibit one: The United States of America. Long the largest free trade zone in the world. We're also the wealthiest in the world.

[Zhang Fei]

Great....more Free Trade...just what we need /sarc

With the EU collapsing....Communist China now off-shoring the off-shoring the US did....and massive Trade Deficits...the US needs more Free Trade now like it needs more Islamic Terrorists collecting Food Stamps

Outside of useless economists at Liberal univesities..few are pushing Free Trade as something “positive”. free Trade does not work....and there is no evidence it does. Period

I think there's an assumption here that countries with freer trade are poorer for it. The following Heritage Foundation chart ranks countries with the freest trade policies at the top and the ones with the most restrictive ones at the bottom. If you examine the list you'll see that most of the countries with the freest trade policies are also the ones with the highest per capita GDP. The converse is also true, meaning many of the countries with the most restrictive trade policies are also among the poorest in the world:

[Gunslingr3]

free Trade does not work....and there is no evidence it does. Period

You're right.

We need the government to manage trade.

Of course to do that we'll need the government to set prices. And for that to work we'll need the government to set quotas.

And for all of those to work we'll need to abandon freedom to trade, true and mutual cooperation, which is the fulcrum of property rights on which mankind is lifted from the barbarism of nature into civilization.

Perhaps our government will package these diktats in convenient 5 year plans.

We can call them the New Economic Plan. I sure it will usher in an age of wealth and wonder...

Why is it on Free Republic people decry actual freedom and want government dictating who can trade with whom and on what terms. As though the beknighted hand of the bureaucracy had someone fostered all the wealth these posters utilize to share their views...

[expat_panama]

..and massive Trade Deficits...

Actually, it's not nearly as massive as it was before the leftists took over Washington--

--but what, you want things like they were back in early '09?

[BfloGuy]

Outside of useless economists at Liberal univesities..few are pushing Free Trade as something “positive”. free Trade does not work....and there is no evidence it does. Period

Well, there's plenty of evidence that protectionism doesn't work. I'll go with freedom.