[A. Pole]

You are either very young, or very ignorant.

Your are either very fat or very ugly.

Maybe he is fat and ugly, but at least he is not ignorant.

You are either wrong or we are right.

[Protagoras]

You are ignorant if you think protectionism leads to anything good. Populist crap leads to power for those peddling it, nothing else.

You folks seem to think that countries and companies that sell products for less than they cost to produce will prosper. That isn't ignorant, it's stupid.

Those countries will go under. In the mean time our people buy their stuff for less and the money they save ends up going to productive things like new ideas and products and productivity instead of propping up some union thug who desires $35 an hr. to make sneakers that a child can learn to do in 1/2 hr.

You are wrong, and what's worse, you never learned a thing from history.

I'm tired of being attacked by nitwits and called names for my positions so I call the names back. But I don't pull punches like you part time flamers.