[1rudeboy]

But it was protectionists from Lincoln to Coolidge who gave us the highest standard of living on earth.

This kind of crap really ticks me off. If Pat supported his claim, people on both sides of the issue could have a reasonable discussion about the criteria for standard of living comparisons, and maybe learned from each other about what must be different methods in their calculation.

Instead, we will now have this "slogan" (there really is no better term for it) repeated endlessly as fact.

[Toddsterpatriot]

I must have missed when we stopped having the highest standard of living on Earth. Was if after NAFTA destroyed all our manufacturing? LOL!! Wadda assclown.