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Once again, for the naive. 'Trade' is good. It's the art of making a deal. It's the method by which we better our lot in life. Buy low, sell high. It's real. You can do it. The more trade the better, so long as you're not in the habit of trading real-estate for costume jewelry.

There is no such thing as 'free trade'. It is an artificial construct. You cannot touch it, feel it, or see it. There are trade treaties, trade regulations, labor regulation, monetary agencies, trade courts, trade organizations, et c., ad nauseum.

You can pretend to 'measure' it by using whatever metric causes your data set to fit your hypothesis, and then spin it to sell whatever agenda you're trying to hide. It's very much like 'anthropogenic climate change' in that regard (another Fabian construct).

There is nothing, and I mean N-O-T-H-I-N-G you can purchase that does not involve directly or indirectly some type of governmental tinkering; be it our government or another government, or some nebulous internationalist NGO setting the policy.

By throwing our hands in the air, and refusing to act in our own interests, the only thing we've done is put socialists and other governments in de facto charge of our domestic economy.

Anybody who believes that's a good thing has been brainwashed into lumping economic self-defense and self-interest in with isolationism.

wampum

Once again, for the naive. 'Trade' is good. It's the art of making a deal. It's the method by which we better our lot in life. Buy low, sell high. It's real. You can do it. The more trade the better, so long as you're not in the habit of trading real-estate for costume jewelry.

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There is nothing, and I mean N-O-T-H-I-N-G you can purchase that does not involve directly or indirectly some type of governmental tinkering; be it our government or another government, or some nebulous internationalist NGO setting the policy.

So, you really agree with me then!

Free trade is good. Government meddling is bad.

If you think government meddling with trade is bad, it's nothing compared to government-enforced protectionism.