[Hawthorn]

So you think free trade is bad.

Milton Friedman thought it was good. Tom Sowell agrees. So does every other competent economist. I’ll take their opinions any day.

Case closed.

[familyop]

"Milton Friedman thought it was good. Tom Sowell agrees. So does every other competent economist. I’ll take their opinions any day.

Case closed."

You used the bandwagon approach and a hasty generalization as substitutes for argument, then you pretended to officiate in order to order the "case closed" (a tactic that analytical men see as hostility).

We're seeing much of that in political speech. Our business and political leadership is more rapidly devolving. Maybe they should marry out with the rabble more. It's quite a strange scene to those of us, who are more American in thought than European.

[nyconse]

If these economist and free traders are so smart then why are we on the verge of depression...our industries destroyed and our people turning to socialism as there only means of survival in a free trade world. Why are we not the wealthiest nation anymore...China protects its market and exports manufactured goods...they have cash, we don’t.