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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: George Coyne who wrote (252123)5/1/2002 5:09:30 AM
From: craig crawford  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
>> Free trade does not "cause" freedom <<

quite the contrary. free trade leads to socialism and tyranny.

>> Freedom leads to free trade <<

so you wouldn't be opposed to boeing selling cruise missiles to saddam hussein? after all, that is freedom! how about when toshiba sold silent propeller technology to the soviets back in the eighties while american taxpayer dollars were subsidizing japan's defense! is that all about freedom? how about narcotics and other illegal drugs? shouldn't they be freely traded? should we allow boeing the freedom to sell F-15's to arafat? how about a few tanks? can general dynamics practice true free trade and sell some tanks to the palestinians?

apparently our founding fathers understood that the government needs the ability to regulate foreign trade, or they wouldn't have reserved the power to congress in article I section 8 of the constitution:

The Congress shall have power to lay...duties, imposts and...To regulate commerce with foreign nations

perhaps they were concerned that "a nation whose citizens are free to pursue their own personal goals" might sometimes be detrimental to the nation as a whole when people choose not to exercise discipline, responsibility, and accountability.

"Some of the worst crimes in history have been committed by those who have exercised their liberty without a sense of responsibility or accountability." --Margaret Thatcher

"That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves." --Thomas Jefferson
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