[Havoc]

High tariffs would tie down this economy and make the country a basket case like the other closed economies in the world

We were doing fine up to the point this free trade crap kicked in. There is no basis on which to say what you're saying other that the free traitor dream of destructive profiteering. You guys will mutter anything if it convinces people to let you destroy people and our economy so you can further enrich yourselves. That's something our constitution and government are supposed to protect us from - it's called tyranny.

[Cronos]

We were doing fine up to the point this free trade crap kicked in.

We were a free trade nation, freely selling our goods to the rest of the world, making money and becoming the richest nation on the planet while the rest of the world played the dumb game of socialism. Well, now they've learnt and are aping us, so we have real competition now.

[Cronos]

There is no basis on which to say what you're saying other that the free traitor dream of destructive profiteering

Again you come up with rhetoric instead of questions or answers. There is no such thing as a free traitor, the only traitors are those that want to pervert our nations freedoms and impose communist style legislation. This has been proven to ruin nations -- see China and India who went socialist while Japan and S. Korea turned capitalist and are now first world nations as is Singapore. If you impose sanctions and shut off the country to the outside you'll end up with a larger version of Cuba or North Korea.

[Cronos]

You guys will mutter anything if it convinces people to let you destroy people and our economy so you can further enrich yourselves. That's something our constitution and government are supposed to protect us from - it's called tyranny.

Yes, I'm glad we agree on the fact that our government should protect us from tyranny, especially tyrannical governments with excessive legislation and taxes and tariffs.