To: ClintonBeGone
With free trade, all the trading partners and their people will prosper.Prove it. Show me one instance in the history of civilization where a) there was true free trade and b) everybody prospered.
Free trade is a theory that has never been tested. Yet, we in the U.S. are asked to prove this theory regardless of the consequences.
28 posted on
04/22/2005 3:43:28 AM PDT by
raybbr
To: raybbr
There is a correlation between economic liberty and prosperity.
36 posted on
04/22/2005 5:36:11 AM PDT by
1rudeboy
To: raybbr
Prove it. Show me one instance in the history of civilization where a) there was true free trade and b) everybody prospered There is economic precedence where restricted trade deepened econmoic woes.
The enactment of the Smoot-Hawley tariffs during the depression.
37 posted on
04/22/2005 5:39:42 AM PDT by
Dane
( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
To: raybbr
43 posted on
04/22/2005 6:07:40 AM PDT by
1rudeboy
To: raybbr; Dane
Prove it. Show me one instance in the history of civilization where a) there was true free trade and b) everybody prospered.
History is full of such examples. Let's start with free trade with the Indians.
55 posted on
04/22/2005 7:34:56 AM PDT by
ClintonBeGone
(In politics, sometimes it's OK for even a Wolverine to root for a Buckeye win.)
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