>> Free-trade is just wonderful
Free-trade doesn’t exist.
Just ask the slave laborers owned by Der Trumpenflipper’s Communist Chinese bidness partners.
You having any luck enumerating those principles yet?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3398671/posts?page=44#44
There is no such thing as (Adam) Smithsonian free trade in the world and never has been.
The Free Traders build all their advocacy, logic and benefit models on a penumbra.
The real world is mercantilism. And always has been.
In fact, the USA built the largest capital stock since Rome by adopting Rome's mercantilistic commerce model. England before us.
Now we have a modern uniparty that thinks we should abandon all protections and advantages...all commercial interests...as a nation and adopt the fantasy of Smithsonian Free Trade while the rest of the world learns from and adopts our model of mercantilism.
It's just a way to transfer the US Capital Stock to the rest of the world so that the brokers (Congress and their payers) can skim off the top of that series of transactions and become individually rich.
It really IS that simple.