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To: xzins; C. Edmund Wright
Free trade is a good thing. It's the foundation of capitalism and freedom.

I appreciated Reagan's position on it, and it's NOT BS.

The ruination of the budget did not come from free traders per say, but those who back stabbed and allowed the other side to get away with increasing spending for so many years.

There IS a side to so called free trade that coddles illegals and wants no borders, and no American culture. That's the BS part.

71 posted on 02/20/2016 6:44:48 AM PST by Lakeshark
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To: Lakeshark; C. Edmund Wright

Free trade is not the foundation of capitalism. Self interest is the foundation of capitalism. And this crap sandwich called free trade (or fair trade, it’s kissing cousin) is simply a way for those behind the scenes to deal for their own self interest and not that of the nation.

The nation’s SELF-INTEREST is far more important than any UPC doctrine on ‘free trade’.

Free Trade does not exist, lake.

Self interest does. Those other countries operate on self-interest and we operate on pie-in-the-sky.

Sounds like CEW must be a priest of the UPC church. This really discombobulates his religious text.


73 posted on 02/20/2016 6:49:23 AM PST by xzins (Have YOU Donated to the Freep-a-Thon? https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: Lakeshark

Free trade and open borders are NOT the same thing. Not at all.

in fact, most who support open borders OPPOSE free trade....altho some support both.

It’s been shown that high tariffs cost many more jobs than they save - and those they save they save by perverting the market. Now open borders costs jobs by perverting the labor market as well. Thus I am against BOTH perversions of the market.


74 posted on 02/20/2016 6:50:21 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again (Amazon Best Seller))
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