[rabscuttle385]

[element92]

this story is garbage

[familyop]

Here. Have some rotten eggs and rotten tomatoes.

[bwc2221]

I don't appreciate Griswold and CATO prostituting Christmas for their own purposes.

But, fair trade is far more important than free trade (for everyone except CATO). I just read in Automotive News that the Japanese have instituted its own cash for clunkers program. Naturally American nameplates are not eligible.

Sarah Palin would be well-advised to continue to avoid airheads in think tanks, most of whom are totally divorced from the real world and have never held a real job in their lives.

[JLS]

That is a great essay. Others have said that protection is when we do to ourselves in peacetime what our enemies would do to us in war.

[grey_whiskers]

INTREP.

[Huck]

This article is rubbish. The author conflates “free” trade with trade. His piece trumpets the benefits of commerce generally, without even touching on the details of the subject he pretends to be discussing—”free” trade, which I take to mean duties and imposts on imports relative to those placed on our exports.

[Huck]

that in all nations this regulating power embraced the protection of domestic manufactures by duties and restrictions on imports; that the States had tried in vain to make use of the power, while it remained with them; and that, if taken from them and transferred to the Federal Government, with an exception of the power to encourage domestic manufactures, the American people, let it be repeated, present the solitary and strange spectacle of a nation disarming itself of a power exercised by every nation as a shield against the effect of the power as used by other nations.

James Madison, on the tranfer of the regulation of trade from the states to the general government.

[eclecticEel]

The deadliest war in our history was between two free-trade partners: the northern and southern halves of the United States.

[Age of Reason]

Trade brought 19 cetury Japan out of the middle ages . . .

Just in time for Pearl Harbor.

And to think Japan didn’t want to trade with us, until we forced them to.

[LifeComesFirst]

There are a lot of protectionist stooges on FR, so bravo for posting this.

Too many people here have fallen for the long-debunked fallacy of protectionism, of thinking that free trade “hurts” their nation by selling them things that they want.

What is truly appalling is that for every dollar of goods an American spends on Japanese goods, somebody in Japan HAS to spend a dollar on *something* in America. That’s how currency exchanges work. And yet these boobs continue to fall hook, line, and sinker for the lies.

[Wolfie]

So...where did our jobs go?

[algernonpj]

Unfortunately CATO has taken Christmas as an opportunity to once again conflate true free trade with 'free trade' agreements (NAFTA, GATT, etc) that have been imposed upon us by the globalist elite who run the republican and democrat parties.

In these agreements, US sovereignty, & national security are sacrificed to open borders needed for the unimpeded movement of goods and natural persons, i.e. units of labor. US business (not global corporations) and US workers are placed at a severe disadvantage by onerous taxes, extreme environmental regulations, political correctness. Countries such as China and India are excused from even minimal environmental regulations,from what we would consider even minimal humane working conditions, and any semblance of political correctness.

While true unemployment is between 17 and 22%, 8 million illegals have jobs and 125,00 new legal workers are brought in to the US each month.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

[dirtydanusa]

Free trade cost me my job, with the Chinese dumping all their under priced stainless steel over here and the dumbocrats turning a blind eye to it, my factory went from 600 down to about 30.

[meadsjn]

Peace On Earth, Free Trade For Men
by Daniel Griswold

Daniel T. Griswold is the associate director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute in Washington. Added to cato.org on December 31, 1998

This article appeared on cato.org on December 31, 1998.

Eleven year old article, eleven more years of lopsided anti-American, pro-global-communist Free Traitor agreements.

And look at the wonderful condition of our economy. You certainly can't blame it on the lack of "free trade" agreements, no protectionism to blame (at least not USA protectionism).

All these experts at Cato need to be hanged right alongside the Democrats, RINOs, and the Wall Street thieves.

[IM2MAD]

I’ve always wo ndered why FAIR TRADE is no longer considered an option.