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No, those pins were NOT cheap at all. As a matter of fact, pins were never all "cheap", until modern history. Why else would the children's' rhyme ( "SEE A PIN, PICK IT UP, AND ALL DAY, YOU'LL HAVE GOOD LUCK." ) have become popular and an admonition, of sorts, to never ignore a pin?

I was merely using Mrs. Adams' requests to her husband, for IMPORT GOODS, to prove that Americans have ALWAYS bought things not made here. Gee, even when more things were manufactured here, many people still bought foreign goods instead.

The Masons were NOT a trade union, in the 18th century; pet. If you're going to attempt to "teach" someone a lesson...don't do so, when you, yourself, know less than nothing at all about the topic. And as one of the heads of the FreeMasonry List, you just brought up a topic which I knew more about, when I was four years old, than you do now. LOL

Is there some way to do a "list" search on FR?

I was merely using Mrs. Adams' requests to her husband, for IMPORT GOODS, to prove that Americans have ALWAYS bought things not made here. Gee, even when more things were manufactured here, many people still bought foreign goods instead.

And that particular point is almost completely irrelevant because no protectionist is saying no imports. Where is our oil and other mineral commodities going to come from? A 25% revenue tariff, returning us historically back to what works, is not, and wasn't then, an insuperable barrier.

The Masons were NOT a trade union, in the 18th century; pet. If you're going to attempt to "teach" someone a lesson...don't do so, when you, yourself, know less than nothing at all about the topic.

Well, pet, I guess I have to teach you something, because apparently you need to learn to read. LOL!

I never said that they were a "trade" union. To be exact, quoting myself: "And btw, there weren't any egregious U.S. unions for you to genuflect against, unless you count the FreeMasons. And most of the Founders were such..."

Nowhere did I say trade, or craft, or any such thing. Nor inferring such. I was drawing a larger condemnation of your ill-founded, and lame philosophy...and how you squarely run athwart the principles of the Founders...who virtually all agreed with 'protectionist' trade policies...which were in fact freedom to them. I implied that you are diammetrically opposed to those Founders. And it went right over your head.

They say that those who can't, teach. Sigh. Apparently the nostrum applies to you....