[A. Pole]

"Among Samuelson's fellow liberals, this revisionism has been a welcome development and could not have come a day sooner."

As I've said time and time again, you are who you agree with, and you Willie, now agree with the guy who agrees with his "fellow liberals" on the issue of free trade.

I am sorry Luis, but you are ignorant of some basic facts.

The word "liberal/liberalism" means something else. In America is it being colloquially used to designate social-democrats, while in the other countries the traditional classic meaning is being used.

It is Indian publication and the word "liberalism" stands for laissez-faire ideology - of free market and limited government.

[Luis Gonzalez]

You're just parsing...a trait of a well-known liberal.

You claim to be a conservative, which means standing for smaller, less intrusive government, but you advocate protectionism, which means bigger, more intrusive government.

In America, Ronald Reagan stood for conservatism...and free trade.

I know...you were for free trade, before you were against it.

[Sam the Sham]

Precisely.

Liberal as it was meant a century ago, referring to Gladstone and the disciples of Smith and Ricardo.

If inflation worsens and the housing market crashes, we could well be in for a strong economic nationalist third party. There is definitely a yearning for one. And it would be based on the religious right who, after all, were economic populist New Deal Democrats two generations ago.