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Strategies & Market Trends : Commodities - The Coming Bull Market
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To: craig crawford who wrote (1268)4/30/2002 11:34:54 PM
From: Dan B.  Read Replies (1) of 1643
 
Well, you have your adherents. I have mine.

You can worry about military consequences of trading with "enemies." I will consider the actual results of free trade, too...and they are simply great.

You have jumped to misrepresent history to attack my opinion when I've said free trade allowed the British people to better feed themselves. They simply were hurting with tariffs, and fared much better without them...all WW military concerns coming later aside. I simply spoke truth, and historical accounts posted concerning this confirm that I did.

I will have more to say about this. You spoke of the "conservative" party which voted mainly against Tariffs, but a quick look at history shows that this very party was the one which had long rejected rights for individuals, while the then "liberal" party in fact worked against imperial rule and FOR individual rights. Your knee-jerk view of history- anything to support you view- is greatly wanting on many counts. In fact Craig, the man who tried unsuccessfully(as you pointed out) to get this early "conservative" party to vote against tariffs, had a personal history of following the likes of Adam Smith's free trade ideas, ...and he(clearly supporting free trade) is called the father of the modern Conservative party.

Freedom Works,

Dan B
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