[Mase]

Alrighty then. So, just to be sure, the protectionist position on this is that all of these terrible things you cite can be solved if we will just give government more control over the economy and our personal liberty?

It is truly a wonder when people demand that we create even bigger government to resolve the messes made by government in the first place. And make no mistake, the fault of the problems on your list fall squarely at the feet of government. To blame these things on too much freedom is laughable.

[DoughtyOne]

Then please respond to that post as if it was written to you.

I’d like to hear the brilliant analysis from a supporter of Free Trade, despite the outcome of Free Trade policies on our economy.

The Free Traders had their way, and the government did it’s best to facilitate the whole damned thing.

Now the response is to trash people who didn’t think selling our souls to China was a good thing to do in the first place.

Do you folks ever take ownership of ANYTHING?

[1rudeboy]

You must admit, it's kind of embarrassing for our side when the most pro-business, free-market, non-interventionist, laissez faire Administration the Republic has ever seen can't fix these terrible problems. /s