>> But CRAIG, you DID plainly and simply say Britians nearly "STARVED(your word, not mine)", in your direct disagrement with my suggestion that
Britians ate better after repeal of the Corn Laws <<
they did nearly starve thanks to the german sub!
>> First off, despite your words above, it remains correct to say that near WWI, Britian successfully was STILL feeding its citizens well(i.e. via trade by
choice). <<
of course, they ate. when i say fed themselves, they didn't produce their own food. they had to rely on imports to feed themselves, opening them up for an attack by germany who thought they could interrupt their food supply shipments with their arsenal of u-boats. america to the rescue of britain.
>> Britians simply always ate well after repeal of the corn laws, and such wasn't the case before repeal(hence the clamor to try repeal) <<
the point is they became dependant on imports full time, rather than supplementing shortages with imports. that was a mistake. there is nothing wrong with importing some food to go along with the food you grow yourself. but to totally abandon agriculture is foolhardy. that's exactly what they did.
>> They believed the Corn Laws had saddled them with the suffering, so they repealed them and it worked <<
hmm...the slogan of the anti-corn law league was "free trade, peace and good-will among nations." how well did that work out for them? britain was involved in more wars than any other nation following the repeal fo the corn laws. doh!
>> Such a positive result invariably occurs whenever more freedom is introduced, and
history cleary and repeatedly shows us so, if one really looks <<
so in the near century and a half when america operated under the tariff system we were not free nor well fed?
>> The "liberals" of the time were also American Revolutionaries <<
george washington was a "liberal"?
>> Say what you will Craig, but I'm quite confident most observers know well that free
traders have long come mainly from the ranks of modern conservatives. Modern conservatives were once largely known as liberals(now, as classic liberals) <<
here is your mistake. modern conservatives are not classic liberals, even though they may label themselves as such. |
