[Tublecane]

“Is this true? If so, that’s not exactly ‘free trade’, is it?”

Well, it’s not free trade on their part. But we can’t control them, can we? Anyway, free trade is not about moralizing. It’s about being as efficient as possible. If we can get a better deal abroad than at home, then we deserve to do so. I, for one, do not beleive in using economics as just another instrument of policy. And whether he wants to admit it or not, Buchanan apparently believes more in the power of the state to bring about plenty than in the wisdom of consumers to pursue their own self-interest.

[LearsFool]

I, for one, do not beleive in using economics as just another instrument of policy.

I'm sure glad Ronald Reagan disagreed with you, and used the dollar as a weapon against the Soviet Union.

We might save a dollar by pursuing our own self-interest. But if America falls, where're we gonna spend it?

(Was it Lenin who said, "The capitalists will sell us the very rope with which we will hang them." ?)