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To: TimF who wrote (25935)	5/3/2002 2:30:28 PM
From: craig crawford	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

Invisible Hand : How Free Trade Is Choking the Life Out of America amazon.com by Jay I. Olnek Are you the typical conservative, who has been fed a steady diet of pro-free trade propaganda by internationalists: libertarians, Marxists, and global government enthusiasts of every stripe? Then Oknek's book is a timely work that provides the reader with a historical overview of the political and philosophical struggle between American patriots and the internationalist disciples of free trade, who have tried to foist their idealology on the American people Conservatives, who pride themselves for their patriotism, should be the last to endorse free trade. Believers in world government are of course internationalists, and therefore are believers in free trade -- which is nothing more than the elimination of all boundaries between countries. Nationalists -- those who believe in American sovereignty and the Constitution -- cannot be free traders. ... George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and the Founding Fathers vehemently rejected the half-baked free trade scheme proposed by Smith. America's statesmen viewed free trade as a philosophy that, if translated into public policy, would cripple economic growth, result in higher taxes, and domestic inflation, and favor foreign interests over those of the American republic. Free trade is wrecking the economies of capitalist countries all over the world. It creates over-production and under-production, cartels, multinational corporations, free trade cheating (non-tariff barriers and state subsidies), international bribery and shutdowns of industries ... Communism and socialism thrive and expand in a world of economic anarchy.