“The exchange of lawful goods and services. Now will you answer?”
Then absolutely, YES.
“freedom and liberty are not just intellectual superior, they’re morally superior.”
I agree. Are you familiar with the Heritage Foundation texts and reference items for defining “Economic Degrees of Freedom”? FreeTrade ‘shills’ as I like to call them have their two separate definitions for freedom. The old lingo from a few years ago called it “Degrees of Trade Open-ness”. Today, they’ve replaced “Trade Openness” with “Freedom”. The variables for defining a countries economic ‘freedom’ includes civil rights areas. BAD BAD BAD. People will then say, well, if you’re against trade that hurts the US, then you must be against ‘freedom’.
You can tell that it’s a never-ending tail chase. I went through it with Toddster once, just for sport. He failed :)
You and I are likely on the same page, but the free trade shills have done one heck of a job screwing the terminology up. That hurts everyone trying to understand things.
So says the EPI agreeing, union loving, math challenged noob.