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The big industrialists who fund the think tanks that spout the Free Trade line, don't really believe in free trade either. Or maybe they do ...

In their view government is a convenient hurdle to try and place in front of other competitors. The corporations will tolerate even large hurdles placed in front of themselves, so long as the hurdle in front of their competitors is even larger.

If you have the power and freedom to throw a government tax or regulation in front of one of your competitors then the free market requires that you do so!

So why are all these free traders opposed to government? Is it because they are too lazy and too poor to afford to twist government in their direction?

I say stop wasting your time on FreeRepublic trying to convince us commie-pinko-tariff-loving-neanderthals of the correctness of your views and spend more time selling crap on e-bay, making eTrades, and turning houses for fun and profit.

It's amazing how companies like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon could ever succeed in such an economically-manipulated country as ours, right? After all, the big industrialists are the only ones who can make a go of it all when we have free trade.

You expose a nutty philosophy. Are you sure you don't mean to put them on the DU forums?

The nuts that spout the free trade line support profit with no ethics. They aren't much different from gangsters with the exception that Gangsters at least have a code of ethics. They only follow them so long as the next guy isn't a threat.. then again...

I've run into One free trader here that believes business and ethics should have anything to do one with the other. One. And I bout had a heart-attack. These people would have had their clocks cleaned by our grandparents who saw this country through WWII. The offshoring happening today during WARTIME putting workers out on the streets in favor of foreign labor because they don't want to work within this market which made them what they are..

Personally, I'm glad My grandparents didn't live to see this. They'd have been disgusted. One of my friend's Dad was a rear gunner on B-25s in the 8th airforce during WWII and is sickened by what's happening today. I can't repeat what he says. But if he had his ruthers, these guys would be lined up and shot. You don't screw your people for profit - let alone in wartime. That people don't get that today is a sad commentary on what this nation has allowed itself to become. The liberals have so screwed up this country that treason has become a way of life such that nobody dares call it what it is. It's sick.