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To: Will88
The pro China crowd endlessly tries to convince us that prosperity equals freedom. The british were attempting to do the same in the days leading to the revolution. They said look at the wonderful trinkets you have by being subordinate to us but the colonists were on to the scam and having no more of it.

The last couple of questions the House of Commons asked of Ben Franklin are pretty telling.

Q. What used to be the pride of the Americans?

A. To indulge in the fashions and manufactures of Great Britain.

Q. What is now their pride?

A. To wear their old clothes over again till they can make new ones.

11 posted on 01/23/2011 9:14:48 AM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: cripplecreek

And beneath the surface of all the debates about free trade and globalism is the question of whether the US should remain a mostly independent nation. Many don’t think we should, and they actually believe nations should be ‘interdependent’ rather than independent.

Interdependence is another one of the crackpot ideas that gained currency after WWII as a way to prevent future wars, when in reality nuclear weapons pretty well ensured that the industrial nations of that era would never go to war with each other again.

Every nation should retain a great degree of independence, and trade in situations where other nations have natural resources or goods and services of a unique nature, and not all this jobs and technology for cheap labor and lax regulation that is all most US trade with developing nations amounts to now.


17 posted on 01/23/2011 9:33:58 AM PST by Will88
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