[hedgetrimmer]

When a worker is paid it is in return for something - his work - which he does for the benefit of others

"free traders" don't want something pesky like citizenship to interfere with their economic theories. Everybody is a "worker" or "consumer". There are no nations, only "trade areas". There is no love for an archaic old piece of paper called the US Constitution, and no obligation to perpetuate the American way.

[JasonC]

Pure slander, you won't find an ounce of it anywhere in anything I've ever written.

But I am not a collectivist and I don't think I own other people's property. They can do what they like with their property and doing so neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. I grudge no man his living and covet nobody else's goods. And that to me is universal morality. Our country is great in significant part because we have habitually conformed to it more than most of the world has. Which has also made us rich.