When economic patriotism died

World Net Daily ^ | 5/02/2013 | Buchanan, Patrick

[9YearLurker]

And if companies have to pay a ‘competitive wage’, they’ll go to the locales where the workforce is more skill—and Bangladesh will fall further into poverty.

Yes, safety should be observed, but condemning the low wages of low-wage countries leads to exactly what such ‘compassionate’ people at least claim to want to avoid.

[9YearLurker]

Are you at least familiar with the concept of comparative advantage?

[Toddsterpatriot]

As for Pat Buchanan being a critic of Free Trade, I would gladly take him over Free Trade supporters like

Ronald Reagan.

[Toddsterpatriot]

I always ask on these Free Trade threads.... prove to me Free Trade works. I get a lot of theory...but not any facts.

Maybe you could prove that higher taxes work?

[Toddsterpatriot]

Karl Marx was also a proponent of Free Trade

Why?

[Toddsterpatriot]

How did the Bush steel tariffs protect the American worker?

[C. Edmund Wright]

Literally, because he thought it would collapse society.....

[rdb3]

How did the Bush steel tariffs protect the American worker?

They didn't.

[Theoria]

'He’s never been in business for a single minute and his ignorance shows.'

He is a successful businessman in the form of starting a magazine publication and authoring numerous best selling books, but besides that, he's done alright.

As for his general pov on trade, sure he could be right. One can see the obvious results of wage arbitrage via globalization. The middle class in American has been odd result in history, now that 'real' market forces are at play, it will shrink, but that is the nature of current principles.

[C. Edmund Wright]

He’s not a business man, but yes, he has made money on the strength of his political connections - and he has traded on his name recognition - and all of that is fine......but if you think that has a damned thing to do with main street business reality, you don’t know anything about main street business.

[1rudeboy]

Karl Marx stated that he was in favor of “free trade” because it would lead to a revolution of the proletariat vs. the bourgeois. And protectionists who quote him, agree with him.

[1rudeboy]

Leading to a very humorous paradox: people who agree with Marx calling you a Marxist.

[quimby]

I see you are still attacking those who disagree.

At least this time you are defending Friedman.

[1rudeboy]

Like I said....prove to me Free Trade works, and provide me facts.

[Toddsterpatriot]

He’s a protectionist, he can’t use facts.

[1rudeboy]

Frankly, I was expecting the: “derp, you post graphs and stuff.”

[allmendream]

Well OBVIOUSLY the problem with America is there isn’t enough of the right kinds of taxes!

[C. Edmund Wright]

Karl Marx stated that he was in favor of “free trade” because it would lead to a revolution of the proletariat vs. the bourgeois. And protectionists who quote him, agree with him.

Marx was in favor of free trade because it would cause bad things, in his warped mind, a mind that was never correct about anything economic. I, Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Sowell, and many others are in favor of it because we know it will cause more good things for more people than the alternative. So I dont give a fk why Marx or other idiot leftist are in favor of it. They are wrong, and their motivations are evil. Irrelevant.

[RegulatorCountry]

I, Milton Friedman, Ronald Reagan, Thomas Sowell, and many others are in favor of it because we know ...

Oh for cryin out loud.