[BfloGuy]

Are you excusing free trade with unfree markets, never mind enemy countries?

I am "excusing" free trade with unfree markets. I am concerned with American consumers looking for the best price. All economics must be looked at from the point of view of the individual consumer.

As for the enemy thing, let the government declare a country as the "enemy" with all that entails [Cuba is a good example] and I'm cool with it.

[Olog-hai]

So you’re not concerned with the security of the country. And you are blind to the existence of enemies. The USA did not lose all its enemies in 1945, you know. Unfree markets attack free markets like ours when they trade with us; it’s an old form of warfare.

More Americans are concerned with being able to find a job than for the “best” (which doesn’t always mean lowest in terms of bottom-dollar) price. There is a reason why the consumer economy is down.

[central_va]

If I save 10 cents on a dollar buying cheap slave made imports, only to have my taxes go up to feed and house our unemployed, did I save money?