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The "Free Traders" are down to dogma and charges of heresy, they are the Jesse Jackson's of the economic sphere. The driver of our new paradigm economy is vendor financing of our purchases, think Lucent and the dot-coms. For the most part this dogmatic adherence to free trade is promulgated by think tank whores and the salesmen for multi-nationals and to each their day is coming. By their logic I could H1-B them out of a job, if they can outsource the tech industry they can outsource the fools who brought this about.

I remember a quote from another forum I'm on, Audio Karma, an old radio/TV forum (I'm a radio geek/ham radio operator) where it went something like this, "we used to make money by making things, now we make money on money, something is wrong with that." I'd like to ask a lot of these think tank people if they had times where they were out of work, worrying about where the money is coming from to pay the bills and so on. They need to come down to the frontlines where the battle is being fought. My aunt used to say, "every dog has his day." Personally, I think these guys are just as bad as the lefty think tankers, both live in isolation of the real world.