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one manufacturing business closed each day in 2007, allowed to die...

Here's an idea: how about we appoint you to the Board of Overseers? You know, the government agency people go to to get permission to close the doors when their company goes bankrupt; the agency that's been allowing these companies to die. That way you can keep these bankrupt businesses making stuff that no one wants to buy. Please explain how you intend to fund this mission of mercy because companies that can't sell their stuff don't have money to pay people.

Drink Good Coffee. You can sleep when you're dead.

Well, I could tax them and then sign treaties with other nations that I say they promote free trade, when in reality there is usually a political component to them (somehow this will help bring down their dictator, "open markets" etc.). I can then surrender more sovereignty to a world organization who cares nothing for the U.S., its workers or its government.

Its funny that we call it free trade when often these other "companies" are government subsidized in a lot of ways even after the "free trade" agreement that our companies are not. No, its not a level playing field. And often the politicians know that. And the "Board of Overseers" is often indifferent politicians in our country or those with some other agenda, and members of international groups such as the WTO who obviously do not have the best interests of the U.S. in mind.

Free trade is not a one way street, though it seems to have become that in modern times. At least for the United States of America. The effects are becoming obvious, and the lack of true "Free trade" is damaging the the positive aspects of the theory.

This discussion reminds me of government policy in Atlas Shrugged when in order to fight the collapse of the economy, the government ordered everyone to do the exact same things they did the year before.

This country lost a lot of farming jobs with the industrial revolution.

We are still in the process of losing a lot manufacturing jobs with the technological revolution.

However, our food output and manufacturing output are still INCREASING.

Making more with less. Isn't that the point of a successful business.

any responsibility for this Nation, selling out their Country and lining their own pockets so they can die and leave their brats a large estate.
Thanks for your nice comments Bob
TXPoet

Some people think they have the right to tell their fellow citizens where to buy things, and from whom. What's more, they want to use government to restrict their fellow citizens' basic freedom in this matter. Such people deserve to have government agents come to their homes and force them to eat their spinach. For their own good.

Drink Good Coffee. You can sleep when you're dead.

Justcurious, what are you doing about the banning of the incandescent light bulb?

what are you doing about the banning of the incandescent light bulb?

I have a basement laboratory where I'm working on a low-flush light bulb. Once I perfect it, I'm going to bribe the Congress to make you buy it.

I would remind our "Fair Trade" friends that Life is Not Fair™

Fair Trade is a unicorn. Neither exist in reality.

Now Part 2 let me know that I need not mess with the rest.

I love the way your user name really puts the exclamation point on the matter.;>)


The purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better.
Dr. Theodore Dalrymple

Oh, we got the point. Your point — which you proved — is that you and your fellow self-righteous philosopher kings think you know better than everyone else how to bring about the survival and growth of the nation — which is silly because you don't know any such thing — and that those who do not attach importance to the same factors that you do are behaving badly, which is snooty.

Sadly, the rest of us do not trust self-appointed, self-righteous, arrogant philosopher kings who know better than everyone else what people should do. That's because people who know what everyone else should do tend towards tyranny once they get their hands on the levers of power.

That's why we'd like you to take your personal preferences about what other people should do, and how they should behave, and place them under your bed, and fall asleep on them, and dream of being better than everyone else.

Until you wake up.

Drink Good Coffee. You can sleep when you're dead.

Unfair. Unbalanced. Unmedicated. -- IMAO

And a further note that we see your "greed" in context with your continual rantings against free trade. It seems to be the only major issue that you get excited about lately.

discussion, it means high taxes, socialism, protectionism, and any other word that is the opposite of free markets.

Wanting to get the most benefit for the lowest possible proce is not greed, it is prudence.

The Bible talks about greed, but it also talks about three servents who were given custody of some money. The servant who burried the gold was chastised. The servants who made productive use of the gold were rewarded, not chastised for being greedy.