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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: craig crawford who wrote (236599)	3/12/2002 1:14:24 AM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

You are saying "yes" to a problem I didn't mention, but that's neither here nor there, I guess. That you haven't countered the arguments I've made, is more pertinent. Protectionism has been taken too far since the beginning, to the demonstrable harm of us all in each case. One thing needs to be cleared up here. Without question, free trade IS a traditional conservative principle, not some new band-wagon, despite the defectors you've mentioned from history. There remains far too little free trade. You've accepted the fact that free trade raises prices, and indeed it in fact leaves us with less to spend overall(after buying the same products). It irrefutably harms business in foreign lands(they lose our market), AND here(because we have to spend more for the same things, and because business and jobs that would have been created here in an effort to repay other countries for their goods, never comes into existence since other countries never got paid our money to spend here). It is nigh impossible to take free trade too far. The exploitation which you imagine spurs the call for free trade, simply existed prior to any serious alteration of policy. If anything, you will see less exploitation with more free trade, more exploitation with less free trade- gum up the efficiencies with protectionism, and you will have to deal with hurt and desperate countries and corporations. Freedome DOES work. Efforts to control and protect from on high always prove, in the final analysis, that Freedom Does Work, Dan B