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Cannonpointer » 16 Jul 2014 11:30 pm » wrote: Booms are a man eating his own leg, dummy. Busts are when he looks down and sees the folly.

Free Trade has created a communist juggernaut in Asia and unemplyment at home.

The psychotic bleats in ignorance again.

China is no longer Communist, and we had a huge boom for many years after GATT and NAFTA passed.

What, were you sleeping?

Explain to the board how allowing slave made goods manufactured with zero environmental or worker safety protections does not say to an American worker, "If you want to get this job back, work in dangerous conditions for a pittance, and pollute your children's air and water."

We'll wait, Clem. Explain that. How does allowing slave made goods into our market NOT put American workers on notice that they can have their jobs back if they agree to slave wages? And how does rewarding environmental degradation and police state tactics against labor NOT co-sign such behaviors? How does building China's war machine benefit us, when they are our only military threat in Asia? [/quote]

Typical morass of confusion and illogic. Can slave labor build an Ipad? Write software? Design computer chips?

Beyond that, you're just bleating.

China is less likely to be militarily aggressive under Free Trade, because it has far more to lose than if it was poor and isolated.

Go study a little history, moonbat.