[MadIvan]

I only look silly to the people who are against free trade. Since I don't care what those crypto-socialist idiots think, I don't care what I look like to them.

Ivan

[hedgetrimmer]

You only look silly because there is nothing FREE about the fraudulently named "free trade". If it were free, why is Rob Portman going to take $2.7 billion from us to "allow" "poor countries" to trade with us?

[meadsjn]

You are the one cheering for socialism. The Ambassador stated that the state department is increasing our "contribution" to $2.7 billion annually -- this to support "Free Trade".

When you take from one party (US taxpayers) and give to others, that is socialism, whether to recipients here in our slums, or to tin-pot dictators and bureaucrats in some third-world cesspool.

"Free Trade" is global socialism.

[Conservative Goddess]

I'm not against free trade.

I am against foreign aid.

I don't understand why they are inexorably connected and the free trade seems to be contingent on increased foreign aid. That strikes me as pure socialist nonsense....it really does.

Paraphrasing one of your previous posts......

If dollars go overseas, and goods come back....that's good.

When dollars go overseas, and the American people receive nothing in return.....well...that's bad.