[Luis Gonzalez]

Willie, it isn't hard to imagine that you believe Marx and Engels.

They preach that free trade creates social unrest in a country, and leads to violence and the overthrow of governments.

Did you expect the people who invented a system of government that makes even transactions between two citizens illegal, to sing the praises of free trade, and argue that it brings about social stability and personal wealth for the masses?

Do you think that Marx and Engels would have actually said that our system was more stable and more effective than theirs Willie?

You have a big problem Willie, you are posting communist propaganda in a conservative site, and calling it the truth.

You've yet to figure it out, haven't you Willie?

You support a Hitler apologist for the presidency, and quote Marx and Engels at every possible opportunity.

You're not a conservative Willie.

[Willie Green]

Your uncle Fidel trained you well in emotional, disingenuous smear tactics, Luis.

But the truth is, even Adam Smith warns of the social unrest that would result:

Excerpted and condensed from:

Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations, Book 4, Chapter 2

Of Restraints upon the Importation from Foreign Countries
of such Goods as can be produced at Home

"There seem, however, to be two cases in which it will generally be advantageous to lay some burden upon foreign for the encouragement of domestic industry...

• The first is, when some particular sort of industry is necessary for the defence of the country....

• The second case, in which it will generally be advantageous to lay some burden upon foreign for the encouragement of domestic industry is, when some tax is imposed at home upon the produce of the latter. In this case, it seems reasonable that an equal tax should be imposed upon the like produce of the former....

As there are two cases in which it will generally be advantageous to lay some burden upon foreign for the encouragement of domestic industry, so there are two others in which it may sometimes be a matter of deliberation; in the one, how far it is proper to continue the free importation of certain foreign goods; and in the other, how far, or in what manner, it may be proper to restore that free importation after it has been for some time interrupted....

• The case in which it may sometimes be a matter of deliberation how far it is proper to continue the free importation of certain foreign goods is, when some foreign nation restrains by high duties or prohibitions the importation of some of our manufactures into their country. Revenge in this case naturally dictates retaliation, and that we should impose the like duties and prohibitions upon the importation of some or all of their manufactures into ours....

• The case in which it may sometimes be a matter of deliberation, how far, or in what manner, it is proper to restore the free importation of foreign goods, after it has been for some time interrupted, is, when particular manufactures, by means of high duties or prohibitions upon all foreign goods which can come into competition with them, have been so far extended as to employ a great multitude of hands. Humanity may in this case require that the freedom of trade should be restored only by slow gradations, and with a good deal of reserve and circumspection. Were those high duties and prohibitions taken away all at once, cheaper foreign goods of the same kind might be poured so fast into the home market as to deprive all at once many thousands of our people of their ordinary employment and means of subsistence. The disorder which this would occasion might no doubt be very considerable....

But then, why pay attention to what Adam Smith says?
Just go ahead and call me more nasty names.
That's all you ever do anyway.