[jec41]

But since you are tired of facts I will not bore you with any more. Just keep saying to yourself....free trade is good, free trade is good and don't let little facts get in the way of your world-view.

Yeah, protect-ism worked real good 1929-1950. I lived half of that period. You should have lived the other half.

[unseen]

It is not an either/or proposition. We can have trade and we can have independence. Since the founding of the colonies we have had trade with tariffs. It worked fine for hundreds of years. The depression was not caused by not having free trade. The RECORD tariffs on goods did make it worse but it did not cause it. Free trade would not have stopped Hitler from gaining power. Hitler gained power because the Versailles treaty was written to punish Germany for WW1 and to make Germany pay. The only reason we went the free trade route was to contain the spread of Soviet communism. The soviet union is dead. So should free trade be. May it rest in peace.