Free trade advocates are "nutcakes"

I think you and I read this differently (0.00 / 0)

I read his remarks to suggest that the 30% are the 15% on the right who oppose free trade (your Pat Buchanans) and the 15% on the left who oppose it.

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by: dpogreba @ Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 22:34:02 PM UTC

oh... (0.00 / 0)

...dang, maybe I need to lay on the irony a little harder...

I read it the same way, Pogie. I just was pulling up some facts to show that the it's really the free traders who are the out-of-touch extremists...where Max fits in is Max' business.

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by: Jay Stevens @ Sat Apr 05, 2008 at 03:40:17 AM UTC

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:) (0.00 / 0)

It's more likely I need to re-fill the irony tank. By Friday, it's usually depleted. :)

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by: dpogreba @ Sat Apr 05, 2008 at 14:22:11 PM UTC

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Let's be self-sufficient (0.00 / 0)

Let's face it.  We'll always have trade, whether it's those canned Danish hams or Ferragamo shoes from Italy.

Trade agreements merely make it easier to ship manufacturing jobs overseas, and the same goes for our more affluent Western European friends.

With the price of gas, the diminishing supplies of oil, and the "buy local" movement, we can only hope that international trade on today's scale will be a thing of the past fairly soon.  Eventually, we won't be able to afford the cost of transportation associated with international trade.

The bottom line is that we would be better off if we became "self-sufficient," that is, learn to manufacture and produce using our own resources.  Other countries could do the same.  There will always be various items that countries will need to import, but we need to learn to live within our means, financially as well as resource extraction and labor.

We'd be safer too because we wouldn't be extracting resources and spreading corporate imperialism at other people's expense, creating ill-will around the world.

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by: Lynn @ Fri Apr 04, 2008 at 22:39:45 PM UTC

(Political) Wind Blows Baucus (0.00 / 0)

Baucus is like a plastic Safeway bag stuck on a barbed-wire fence.  When the wind blows strong enough, it breaks free of the fence, sailing back in the other direction. The way to tell them apart: the bag is more colorful in flight.

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by: steve kelly @ Sat Apr 05, 2008 at 16:02:22 PM UTC

You're one to talk (0.00 / 0)

How many times did you switch parties? I could be mistaken of course, but Steve Kelly isn't that common of a name.

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by: Mathello @ Sat Apr 05, 2008 at 16:31:13 PM UTC

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I'm sorry Mathello! (0.00 / 0)

I'm sorry to be so late to the table, but if I may, allow me to say that Steve Kelly, by whatever "party" name he has used, has always been "Steve Kelly." I like that!

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by: Bob @ Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 07:10:50 AM UTC

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Hmmm (0.00 / 0)

Didn't seem like it from 2002 to now, but hey that's my opinions. And like assholes all people have both.

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by: Mathello @ Mon Apr 07, 2008 at 14:23:01 PM UTC

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