[oceanview]

Explain to Harley Davidson that Reagan was for free trade. Just the opposite, tariffs saved their a*s.

[Luis Gonzalez]

You can find exceptions to everything in life, but to argue that the man who penned NAFTA, and said that "Our trade policy rests firmly on the foundation of free and open markets. I recognize ... the inescapable conclusion that all of history has taught: The freer the flow of world trade, the stronger the tides of human progress and peace among nations" was anything but a free trade supporter, is ridiculous.

The whole argument about the evil capitalists sending our jobs overseas, and how we should rise in a new political Party and use the force of government to stop them from doing so, is simply Marxism (economic determinism) hiding behind a (very) thin veil.

Are you guys going to call yourselves Bolsheviks, or will you be looking for a new moniker?

Reagan DEFINED conservatism, and conservative causes...free trade was a Reagan conservative cause.

It still is today.

[ninenot]

Luis ignores a lot of facts.

Reagan also forced the Japs to build their auto plants here with protectionist tariffs.