[DannyTN]

"Actually we need to understand ... economics and freedom."

Agreed we do!!! We need to understand the implications of both. We need to understand history as well. We need to understand....

• How England's free trade policies resulted in the devastation of their manufacturing ability at the beginning of the 20th century.
• How America's and Germany's protectionist policies built our industries up.
• How collapse of world trade resulted in the great depression.
• The difference between comparative advantage and the one way transfer of production capability.
• The danger to freedom of transfering your manufacturing capacity to your known enemy (China).
• The incentives that drive corporate managers and individual firms in a free society and the role that government should play when those incentives are at odds with the best interest of the country as a whole.
• The role that government's play in establishing and maintaining competitive advantage at the national level.

[Protagoras]

You are in need of a remedial economics course and real history. I suggest you spend some time in the non fiction aisle.

It seem you have been stuck reading fiction.

[american spirit]

Some folks just don't have any concept of reality. Here we are with whole industries lost, millions of our people thrown out of work, skyrocketing debt at the fedgov / corporate and personal levels, out of control illegal immigration costing us billions we don't have, etc. In spite of all this nonsense it's incomprehensible that anyone is so out of touch to think fedgov policies on all the above have been beneficial.