[Protagoras]

Yes anyone who doesn't agree with Protagoras that we should have totally free trade is a big government liberal.

Actually is goes deeper than that.Perhaps deeper than you can fathom. It goes to ;
Anyone who thinks it is proper for government thugs to tell people what they can buy, at what price and from whom and what they can pay and what they can earn is a big government liberal. And that is being charitable. Partially free trade is a like a partially preganant women. It can't happen. You are free or you aren't. The degree of your enslavment is irrelevant to the real picture.

You'll have to learn to live with it, but current policies will be changed eventually, and it won't be done by democrats.

Nonsense. You will be long dead before the government gets so utterly whacky that it goes totally backward and sends us back toward the middle ages. By then it will be the last few years of the experiment and freedom will already be dead because of thugs and criminals and the terminally moronic useful idiots who support them.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

So for 200 years prior to these third world free trade deals we were living under tyranny? I don't think so. You're exaggerating for dramatic effect to keep one-sided policies that favor no one but greedy CEOs in place. You have yet to address my posts that it was Republicans through the centuries who supported and promoted protectionism, not liberals.

No one is saying a company can't move to Vietnam and pay workers .20 an hour if they wish. But it is totally within government's right to tax the imports of their products. They used to do that if it undercutted the American worker and it wasn't tyranny, it was government acting in the best interests of the taxpayers. And no, the return to at least some resemblance of that policy won't be after I'm dead, but within the next 5 to 10 years after millions of unemployed voters finally rise up and say enough.