[central_va]

A free economy is the best protection for our industry.

LOL, So how is it that steel and aluminum industries are thriving BECAUSE of free trade?

"we had to kill the domestic industry with free trade in order to save it"

                   --arrogantsob

[anglian]

The Steel “Crisis”
and the Costs of Protectionism April 16, 1999 The 8 million
employees in steelusing
industries
dwarf the fewer
than 200,000
steelworkers by a
ratio of more than
40 to 1. Worldwide economic developments have
combined to produce conditions that unfavorable for U.S. steel producers and favorable for American steel users. In this situation it is not the business of the U.S. government
to intervene in the marketplace and favor
one U.S. industry at the expense of other U.S.
industries. http://www.cato.org/pubs/tbp/tbp-004.pdf

[algernonpj]

"we had to kill the domestic industry with free trade in order to save it"
--arrogantsob

another ROFL

[arrogantsob]

Heavy industry was killed by US government policy and the unions not free trade.