That's simply not true. The rich in America are getting richer. So are the poor. It's been that way for over a century.
Free Trade Absolutists do not even enjoy a majority here at this Conservative chat room.
This chat room is conservative in some areas and totalitarian national socialist in others. There are many Buchananites here that agree far more with Ralph Nader than the GOP.
I don't know about you, but I don't want to suffer four years of some failed dem experiment because a bunch of Bush's dickhead advisors are of the Scrooge, rather than the Ghost of Marley school of economics.
Bush has bent over backwards to cave to Buchananites and Democrats on trade and commerce. Tariffs, farm subsidies, trade protectionism, etc. And they still are not happy. Hopefully he's learned his lesson and will go with good economic logic and remove the steel tariffs later in the year. Bush knows tariffs don't work and only punish the poor and cost the middle class many more jobs than they protect... but he caved to these people (like with campaign finance) and gave them what they wanted. Hopefully soon he will at least just do the right thing, whether they understand the economics of it or not.
No kidding. Its enough to make a person want to get back to work. Not quite, but ....