You don't get it and you don't seem interested in getting it, so you will most likely never get it.
If you change your mind and decide you want to get it, learn something about basic economics. I would suggest some titles to you if I thought you were really looking to get it.
I just don't want to become a country like that.
Absent more government restrictions on freedom and free trade, that will never happen. The quickest route to becoming a country like that, would be to implement what you seem to be advocating. A closed system.
But alas, we shall never know unless you decide to enlighten us by answering the previously asked questions about your positions on trade and freedom.
I am not advocating a closed system never said that. In fact, I don't know that I advocating any system, except one without government manipulation. We do not have an open system - so why would my opposition against what we have mean that I want a closed system.
[But alas, we shall never know unless you decide to enlighten us by answering the previously asked questions about your positions on trade and freedom.]
Since I don't know what free trade is - I can't answer and as I said since it is not what we have - it is a theory - neither you nor I know what it would be, therefore, how can we say we advocate it or not.
But since the entire debate has been clouded with mentioned of free trade which has no place in this discussion.
I will tell you what I am for.
I am for getting the government out of my pocket. I don't like them using my tax dollars to build factories overseas, pay off foreign politicians so those factories can be built. I am for the government ceasing to make me subsidize the workers for the companies left here in America. The government just needs to get out of business altogether.
I am for the government cleaning out this country and protecting this country from outsiders.
Now when that is done and we have some semblence of sanity back in this country - we can talk about the theory of free trade.
You know and I know this fiasco called free trade could not have happened without the government manipulation - so why even discuss free trade. It doesn't exist. It has never existed. Now when that happens, I will read all the theories you can give me - then of course, I will read the opposing theories (because there are always those also) and I will get back to you on whether or not I am for free trade. Until then it is a waste of time, but I won't live to see the possibility of anything near free trade.
If you think we now have free trade - then I am against it.