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To: InterceptPoint
been (unsuccessfully) making these same arguments to the Freepers for what seems like years.

There are freepers and there are freepers.  Some are like you and me and we work for a living.  Others remind me of what goes way back to the time of the founding fathers -

Thomas Paine
“To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.”


Thomas Paine, The American Crisis


59 posted on 07/28/2016 6:40:51 AM PDT by expat_panama
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To: expat_panama

Paine hit the nail on the head.

It is an almost hopeless task trying to educate Freepers concerning the realities of economics. They see the jobs lost from cheap imports. They totally miss the improvements in our standard of living that we get in return. They miss the fact that we export goods that are assembled out of the country and re-imported. Add a tariff to that industry and we lose jobs in the U.S.

I could go on but I think right now I’m going to go read some Thomas Paine.


62 posted on 07/28/2016 6:49:59 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you should have endorsed. Big mistake.)
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To: expat_panama

Just pointing out, you are working in Panama.

:D


65 posted on 07/28/2016 6:53:31 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: expat_panama
Every founding father would disagree with you. You’d be lucky to stay alive if you had said those things in 1776. Tar and feathers for you.

The founding fathers hated free trade and yet built the greatest industrial nation on earth. NWO losers are giving away the store to communists and the the third world, F that. Globalist should vote for Hillary.

69 posted on 07/28/2016 7:01:42 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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