[LibLieSlayer]

Chucky and the dims are brilliant. What we really NEED to do is to revert back to the FAILED "ISOLATIONIST" ways that drove us into depression, and emboldened our enemies to dare think us weak enough to challenge. Is not the "War on Terror" enough for these socio-communist sympathizers? Do we really need to end up fighting another "World War"?

Our economy would become the focal point for attacks from many of our international trading partners. Just look at what was threatened against us over the recent steel tariffs.

Just how many knives in the back can Ole Uncle Sam survive? The EU would love an out-and-out trade war. They are using any excuse today to threaten our exports. They have already stopped beef and poultry imports from the US.

President Bush pushes for free but fair trade. It is hard to define, but easily recognized when one sees it...

LLS

[lt.america]

Yes, trade wars are what caused the depression, but what is at hand is outsourcing of jobs, good paying jobs at that, that are not being replaced at the rate at which we are losing them. I do not agree with restrictions on trade, but we can't expect the economic situation to get any better when this is happening. The irony in the whole situation is that we are educating those who are at the receiving end of these jobs.

I don't know what needs to be done, but I know that what is happening right now is only good for the country that is on the receiving end.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Let's try working on a definition of free trade, I'll throw the first barb in.

In America, private (meaning non-governmental) companies are free to run their corporations as they see fit (within the confines of current laws) when it comes as who they hire, without regard as to where they live, as long as both parties enter into the arrangement freely.

Likewise, the American consumer is free to patronize any business they so wish to patronize, or purchase whatever commercial product best suits them, without interference from the force of government.

Is this a start?

[cp124]

They are using any excuse today to threaten our exports. They have already stopped beef and poultry imports from the US.

Exactly...that and China not following the free trade rules is why it isn't working for the US. Add our taxes, regulations, and legal system we don't have a chance. Wait until people stop living off thier refinancing and credit cards.

[RussianConservative]

What we really NEED to do is to revert back to the FAILED "ISOLATIONIST" ways that drove us into depression, and emboldened our enemies to dare think us weak enough to challenge.

Ummm, actually that not correct...US was not trade isolationist and Great Depression was world wide...why Nazies come to power of Wiemar Germany ....all except Soviet Russia, where Stalin close off economy to rest of world...Isolated economies do not Great Depressions make.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

FAILED "ISOLATIONIST" ways
LOL Man, you're completely uninformed. Those "failed isolationist ways" made this nation great and wealthy. Probably because we had FAIR TRADE, not isolationism.