[staytrue]

It also proves the point that the free traders promote socialism, not individual rights and personal freedom

Free Trade is about buying goods and services from whoever you want and selling your own to whoever you want without interference from the govt.

[hedgetrimmer]

Free Trade is about buying goods and services from whoever you want and selling your own to whoever you want without interference from the govt.

This is patently false in the trade agreements proliferating today. If you go back to the beginnings of this thread you will see there is so much government intervention in the trade deals going on that they are not recognizable as trade deals. In fact they look more like socialist wealth redistribution. Although I posted the information for the benefit of Dog Gone, no "free trader" on this thread can explain how US tax dollars sent to benefit foreign governments and bolster foreign economies is "free".

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1394729/posts?page=71#71

and this http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1394729/posts?page=77#77

Maybe you can explain why I have to pay taxes to build infrastructure in foreign countries when our own roads and freeway systems and water storage systems etc are inadequate for the population and rapidly failing structurally. Maybe you will be so kind as to explain why the US taxpayer must create an environment in a foreign country so a business can outsource or off shore, while they keep all the profits and foist the risk off onto the taxpayer?

Your comment is like a slogan, but it has no merit or basis in fact.