Replies

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....

Thank you for proving my point! It is YOU who needs lessons in reading comprehension; not to mention lessons in how to write cogent English prose.

I know that you still wont be able to see what I am alluding to, in this post of yours, but do, please, give it a try.

The "principles of the Founders"? Oh yes, how could I have forgotten, surly, there are massive amounts of anti-corportation prose in the Federalist Papers. Oh, that's right...there isn't. Nor is there anything remotely anit-capitalist in the BoR and the Constitution. Shucks, no, there isn't. Page after page of it in POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC? Nope, not there either.

Why are you so certain that stiff tariffs will be such a boon? Smoot-Hawly must mean nothing whatsoever to you.

Some of the FFs not only believed that slavery was a good thing, they were slave holders. None of them could manage a way to abolish it and still keep all of the colonies together, to form this nation. If you want to go back to that time, you'll have to invent a working time machine. But I doubt that you would last a month, in that era, no matter what you imagine.