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To: craig crawford who wrote (133164)	10/19/2001 5:44:14 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

What is my point? Funny question coming from you. Perhaps my point is simply that while you are very good at flooding this thread with quotes from 100-3000 years ago in your endless effort to shout down opposing views, you rarely trouble yourself with understanding the context of the quote - the nature of the world at the time - or the overall views of the person quoted and frequently hijack the entire point of what was being said 100-3000 years ago to manufacture a meaning that you think will support your views. You quoted TR, suggesting that those 40 years of which he spoke represent a golden age of prosperity, which prosperity you conclude was somehow the result of protectionism and that we should return to both. At the time TR noted the prosperity of the prior 40 years, it WAS the most prosperous in our history. The same could be said at any time in US history. It is not logical to conclude from this, however, that high tariffs caused the prosperity. By this logic, the tax hikes of the early '90s caused the unprecedented prosperity of this country through the remainder of the decade and 2000. Post hoc fallacy - B follows A, therefore A caused B. PS: TR hardly considered himself an imperialist as you say he was. He simply believed that all people of the world (Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines in particular) deserved to live as we did, in liberty, and he felt it was America's duty to fight for what is right. At least, that's what he said.