Posted on 04/10/2005 1:24:41 PM PDT by Crackingham
It is a DEMAGOGIC TRICK and takes away from the force of your argument which is weak enough anyway.
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Oh, do I smell a liberal...liberals always accuse their competition of exactly what they do...tell me that 10 million illegal invaders in this country is a "weak argument"...get real.
No wonder why CAFTA's drafters need to keep it in the background and out of the public debate. There isn't a single rational argument that can be advanced in favor of it.
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Well stated. It is only of benefit to those that are drafting it -- that is it's real purpose.
"Free" refers to rational legitimate commercial intercourse
among people. It is the opposite of protecting favored businesses, the politically powerful or industries that cannot compete but need the police power of the state to help them. Simple enough.
Now you "explain to us all" why you want to interfere with legitimate business and how you would do it.
If we buy goods produced in other countries that were once produced by an American worker that worker is out of a job.This has been the case in many sectors of the economy over the years.The claim that we pay less for these goods as a consumer is usually not the case.If this goes through take a look at the prices of sugar,shrimp and textiles and see how much you're saving.The prices would be less if the corporations passed it on but they don't.This country was built on a system that protected American workers and industry from cheap foreign slave labor for 200 years.Today the corporations have so much influence over the government that they are allowed to put their profit over the good of the country.Americans sent all their saving to China and they took on a record amount of debt to send there as well and in return for all their money and future earnings they got nothing but junk.I call that wealth transfer.
The politicians, of both political parties. And that makes it all the more interesting to see "conservatives" come on this board and exult about how this is supposedly going to reduce government involvement in the economic sphere. As if something that Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter enthusiastically support would ever do something like that.
You have become silly and disingenuous. You want the gummint to set prices? OK. I'll let you. Then you will find out what the "political class" is.
Protectionism increases the power of the state.
Oh I asked a legitmate question. Now you have decided that mocking in the only responsce. I can only presume that you have no defense for your argument.
Please note that you are the one who keeps talking about protectionism. I point out that the "free trade" system destroys individual sovereignty and takes power from the sovereign citizen which is granted to us by the constitution. It makes me wonder if you are an American citizen and if you ever studied US civics?
I guess it has to come out eventually. I was born in China of Mexican parents who raised me as a Hindu and I studied at Berkley and Harvard after my initial training in the Mossad and IDF. Please don't laugh at me because I'm transgendered. Have pity.
Buh bye.
Why do you support the theft of American sovereignty and promote the "foreign entanglements" our forefathers warned us against which has come to haunt Americans in the form of the WTO and "free trade"?
Ohh yeah, They are evil.
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