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Karl Marx predicted would destroy the West (which is why the former opposed free trade, and the latter, wanting to see the West destroy itself, encouraged the US and Britain to pursue it).

It's funny how much faith you paleos put in Karl Marx and his economic theories. If Karl Marx was in favor of something economically, don't you think to most people that would be a great signal to do the opposite? The paleos and the Marxists (i.e. AFL-CIO)... marching hand in hand yet again.

Hehe...I knew you would focus on that. So predictable.

I agree Marx was full of crap, and will gladly disregard anything he wrote.

You still didn't answer the rest of the post. To refresh your memory:

So...

our industries should go ahead and pay the restrictive tariffs that other nations impose without protest;

we should force our over-taxed and over-regulated industries to compete - without benefit of some combination of tax relief and/or tariffs - with heavily subsidized foreign competition that can hire labor at a fraction of US labor costs;

that because of the cheap working conditions, we should allow America's manufacturing base to move offshore, thereby adding to the unemployment rolls here;

simply accept that since the erosion of American manufacturing is a by-product of "free trade", it's ok (i.e., even though noone will suggest whether, how or why it's a good thing, hey, it's "free trade", so it can't be bad);

and that we should ignore approximately 180 years of American history and tradition and adopt a system that Adam Smith...predicted would destroy the West .

Did I sum up the free trade position correctly?

I should also add that it's funny how much faith YOU put in economic theories and trade policies promoted by Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, Ted Kennedy...just as I always suspected: you are all liberals pretending to be conservatives pretending to be moderates. But please, I am curious as to your response to my earlier post.

In a free trade world there will be those who live behind gated walls and benefit and most who do not and live in squalor. I suppose you represent the gated walls, "let them eat cake" viewpoint.

Twenty years from now China will begin an arms race with the US and win. Twenty years from now American carrier pilots will be slaughtered in a one sided turkey shoot just as the Syrians were over the Bekaa by superior Chinese high tech.

But, hey, if the free market says we should transfer all our high tech to China then it must be right. Right ?