Posted on 10/23/2014 9:31:04 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
zzzz. Protectionist Konformity. You should know better.
All colleges teach this self destructive free trade ideology. Washington DC is full of free trade think tanks like Cato, and lawyers-lobbyists and hack politicians out promoting-profiting from it
You are the conformist to prevailing Anglo-American trade theories. I am the non-conformist who does not accept them. Neither do the great NE Asian manufacturing nations such as China, Korea and Japan. Who are all merchantalists. They are proof that merchantislim can take a poor nation to being rich if they have good human capital. Meaning brains and work ethic.
Mercantilism (sp) was one of the stupidest economic philosophies ever invented and it rightly died out except for Pat Buchanan and Ralph Nader.
Are you arguing that free trade is not the ideal, if what you are seeking is maximum economic productivity? Because that claim is economic nonsense.
Or are you arguing that modern globalist mercantilism (that goes under the banner of “free trade”) is an attack on American independence, sovereignty, and liberty? Because that argument is compelling.
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