[palmer]

You don't have to answer that one because it's clear that the "free traders" have a deep seated animosity toward Americans, and they 'love' the communist slavers because of the cheap goods they can resell to the first world.

Not at all. I have said many times and on many threads, my neighbors, my town, my state, and my country come first. I have posted and contributed to buy American threads. As for the rest of the world and their cheap goods, it is a choice some people make. I might not like their choices but there is no denying that is a better definition of freedom than your idea of a citizen petitioning Congress for protectionism. Sure the latter would be better than WTO, but that doesn't make it good or useful or practical.

My due diligence and extra effort to find and buy local products is the proper mix of freedom and responsibility. Your solution is highly theoretical, does not instill responsibility and ultimately, inevitably limits freedom.

[hedgetrimmer]

I might not like their choices but there is no denying that is a better definition of freedom than your idea of a citizen petitioning Congress for protectionism.

You're a globalist! Petitioning congress is the constitutional right of all citizens. It's not 'my' idea. It is the foundation of freedom in America!

"free traders" are the cancer eating this country from within. You all have decimated our economy and now you're telling everyone that a constitutional right is a bad idea! You people have a lot of nerve, I'll grant you that.