Posted on 08/21/2006 10:15:55 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer
Awesome. I like cheap goods.
"Only traitors do that. Real Americans know it is their duty to buy more expensive goods."
No, 'Real Americans' want to use the power of the federal government to force every one to buy more expensive goods.
Six months ago I was in the markets in Saigon with friends who live there. Their normal routine when shopping the markets is to carefully study the logos of the product they plan to purchase.
This time I was with them so they asked me if the spelling was correct and if the logo looked authenic.
One of the many backpacks had the logo "LL Been". I told him it should be spelled "bean".
China floods the country with fake products and my friends complain that it's very difficult to distinguish the difference until they buy the product and it lasts only the fraction of the time that the authenic product would last.
I went into an electronic store where thousands of DVDs lined the walls. There was the DVD of an entire season of "Everybody Loves Raymond" being sold for less than $1 and thousands of other American TV shows and movies. I didn't realise they were illegal copies until I told my friend I wanted to buy some and he warned me that they are illegal and I may be caught at customs with them either leaving Vietnam or going into USA.
If the Chinese are going to continue with such unfair activities I do not understand why we would continue to cut our own throats by trading with them.
The Executive branch appoints people to the Office of the United States Trade Representative. I guess you'd only be happy if the United States Trade Representative was directly elected? Maybe you'd vote for Pat Buchanan or Paul Craig Roberts? Maybe you could get Willie Green to run?
Representative government, in the context of our Republic, means that we citizens elect the people who represent us, and we can vote them out if they do not.
You get to vote for the President every four years. Assuming you're a citizen......and not a convicted felon.....or in an asylum.
Maybe you really aren't represented. LOL!
Run Pat, Run!!
I didn't say you said anything about capitalism, but capitalism and free market are similar topics, IMO. Since it would be hard to have a free market in a non capitalistic system.
It reminds me of covert, underhanded, secret, clandestine Tribunals
Thats right. You phony Americans want to use the power of the federal government to force every one to buy goods made by miserable communist slaves.
nope. as usual you are factually delusional. only useless Americans like you must lower their wages to compete. The rest of us are getting rich free trading, investing and shopping on the cheap.
if your smelling something foul, look in your closet.
As i told you, i am not part of your loser club.
"Thats right. You phony Americans want to use the power of the federal government to force every one to buy goods made by miserable communist slaves."
So I'm a phony American because I think that it is wrong to use the power of the federal government to limit the freedoms of other Americans?
No, I'm saying that this is just another excuse to restrict trade.
"Now, what you are are saying,if I understand you correctly, in the name of 'trade', we should violate that pact we have made as a people?"
No, you do not understand me correctly. In my view, if you are in favor of restricting trade, you are in favor of slavery since restrictions on trade are just another form of slavery. When you dictate a source of supply, you make the purchaser the slave of the source. If you are so much against slavery, you should be against restrictions on trade.
"If you want to sell your grandmother, and I stop you, its just another form of slavery?"
Bad analogy. A better one is: If you want to force me to buy from your grandmother, then that is a form of slavery.
"Thats really interesting. No wonder you disrespect the rule of law over our sovereign borders. You don't believe in it."
I believe in both the rule of law and sovereign borders. Too bad you think the concept of sovereign borders justifies abridging the rule of law in order to enhance your own life stlye at the expense of your fellow Americans.
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