[Cronos]

This country has never engaged in Free trade prior to recent days with the signing of Nafta and the uprising of globalist horsehockey

Not really, we became a great nation through trade, free trade with the rest of the world. That's why American companies dominate the top 100 companies in the world.

[ninenot]

Where do you GET this crock about "free trade since forever?"

The USA used tariffs through about the late 1920's, dropped them (errantly) when FDR came to office.

We then destroyed the industrial base of Germany and Austria, while the Germans did the same to England and France. We destroyed Japan's.

Since 1955 or so (until WTO/NAFTA/MFN) we have used tariffs, and STILL use them against countries who are NOT WTO members.

[XBob]

233 - "Not really, we became a great nation through trade, free trade with the rest of the world. That's why American companies dominate the top 100 companies in the world."

Sorry - we never were a great trading/exporting nation. We became a great nation through internal trade (within the US) where we developed the largest market in the world, which we used to essentially have to ourselves.

Now we have the market, and the capacity to support it has been exported.