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To: craig crawford who wrote (1349)	6/24/2002 10:47:02 PM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1643

Re: " no point in arguing semantics. you can label it however you want--classical liberal, modern conservative, etc." Ahem...VBG. It was you who began that argument, taking exception to my words. Now, having apparantly realized that my statements on it were correct, and while offering no counter argument, you find no point in discussing it. Okay, fine. Free trade indeed remains, in modern American terms, a conservative principle, and one which favors consumers, individuals in general, and the hence the masses in general, the world over. Re: "free trade is far from free..." Free Trade demands responsibility, and the word freedom has root in the word responsibility, literally. If responsibility cramps your idea freedom, then Free Trade is not free, in your mind at least, but still will work to your benefit. Wherever control upon Free Trade is employed, Free Trade in not in existence. However, if the cost of responsibility is accepted as an element of freedom, then Free Trade is never less than free, as labeled, by definition. To believe it is a "contributing factor in the decline of the United States of America," is to have ignored the evidence wholesale without thought, as you have clearly done without direct comment in your responses to evidence presented by myself and others. Freedom Works, Dan B