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"Being a Pittsburgher (yes I'm a Steeler's fan B-D) and coming from working class roots, I don't deny my economic centrist views come from that but yeah, I'd like to do a study on free-trade vs. fair-trade on the basis of current jobs and family background."

I'm not a psycho... being a Steelers fan is just a Browns fan who likes Black and Gold, (and has had a lot more success lately!).
It's funny how free traders wrap themselves in the flag. They are every bit as dangerous as some of the looney left. They don't care about their country, or about their neighbors or about anything but their portfolio. How shallow, how devoid of vision.
Glad there are a few like us here.
I'm too old, and too married... maybe you are young and single enough? SandyB needs a guy like one of us. ;)

I'm not a psycho... being a Steelers fan is just a Browns fan who likes Black and Gold, (and has had a lot more success lately!).

True, there are lots of similarities between Cleveland and Pittsburgh and I remember when Art Modell took the Browns away, both Brown and Steeler fans got together and mourned. I remember that.

It's funny how free traders wrap themselves in the flag. They are every bit as dangerous as some of the looney left. They don't care about their country, or about their neighbors or about anything but their portfolio. How shallow, how devoid of vision.

I know, I fail to see what is truly American or conservative in their plans. I mean they would have the point if the world was one giant United States with our Constitution but it is not this way and it will never be that way. I do have an acqaintance in Holland and he does call some of the free traders who are just concerned with the bottom line, "calculators without a vision." I do have more respect for the loony left than the free traders, at least the rank and file left, at least they are truthful in their agenda. I guess it is like how Patton had a general repsect for his German opponents although he still fought them tooth and nail. Speaking of the left, I do believe the free traders are playing into their hands, with more people out of work, the more demands on society, that means you'll need more welfare and so on. With less jobs, you'll have less self sufficent people, nature abhores a vacuum so something will step in to fill it, most likely a more advanced welfare system, we will end up resembling an American version of Sweden at least until the system gets so bogged down, it will collapse. I do support the idea of a welfare safety net, but when you have too many in the wagon with not enough pulling it, it is bad for the country and the people at large. If we keep going down this path, we will end up like that.

Glad there are a few like us here.

I do find a good number of us here who believe in the same or similar thing. It's kind of refreshing to see that I'm not alone.

I'm too old, and too married... maybe you are young and single enough? SandyB needs a guy like one of us. ;)

Well, I'll be 39 on Friday (July 8th) B-)