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To: MadIvan
If "Free Trade" were a capitalist movement, it would be privately financed, by definition. It isn't, so it isn't.

Are you using the B. Clinton dictionary?

53 posted on 01/10/2006 4:09:28 PM PST by meadsjn
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To: meadsjn
If "Free Trade" were a capitalist movement, it would be privately financed, by definition.

There are plenty of companies that finance protectionism because they profit from anti-capitalist practices. The sugar industry in the USA is a leading example - they find it's better to play politics than actually compete with the rest of the world. It's not so cut and dried that companies or financiers are in favour of capitalism. Not just protectionist losers scream for mummy government to protect them.

Setting intelligent policy, however, requires realising that capitalism provides the best consumer choice, and thus putting forward those policies which bolster it.

Ivan

56 posted on 01/10/2006 4:15:02 PM PST by MadIvan (You underestimate the power of the Dark Side - http://www.sithorder.com/)
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