[brat]

"You show me complete free trade between any two countries and I'll show you a Wahabi wearing a yumuelke(sp)."
Free trade only works when ALL countries open up their markets....thats why we're getting murdered here in the US of A. We're about the only fools insisting on it. So we now have massive underemployment, unemployment and near poverty conditions for half of America.

[snopercod]

So we now have massive underemployment, unemployment and near poverty conditions for half of America.

Hey, I can relate to that. I'm livin' it.

Where's Willie?

[Nateman]

Free trade only works when ALL countries open up their markets...

Nope. It works best that way but it works even if carried out unilaterally. Tariffs are just a specific kind of tax. Has anybody anywhere taxed themselves into prosperity? Two wrongs don't make a right.  The answer to unfair trade is to use some other means of persuasion.