[Aurelius]

" It would take a heart -- or head -- of stone to get more outraged at wool producers' search for protection than cotton producers' exploitation of uncompensated and unfree labor."

And how do you think the "cotton producers' exploitation of uncompensated and unfree labor" compared with the exploitation of "free labour" by the mine owners of West Virgina and Pennsylvania?

By the way, your signature quote was singularly appropriate to the three addressees of your post.

[GOPcapitalist]

By the way, your signature quote was singularly appropriate to the three addressees of your post.

Ha! I just noticed that myself! And he couldn't have picked any better three than Wlat, mac, and Non-Seq.