Comments on: Free Trade Has Been Refuted? http://www.thefreemanonline.org/departments/free-trade-has-been-refuted-it-just-aint-so/ Ideas on Liberty Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:28:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Paul http://www.thefreemanonline.org/departments/free-trade-has-been-refuted-it-just-aint-so/comment-page-1/#comment-25311 Paul Sun, 02 May 2010 17:34:21 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/uncategorized/free-trade-has-been-refuted-it-just-aint-so/#comment-25311 Uh, moron, economics is facts and not ideology. Try not confusing the two. Here as the facts that simply cannot be denied: The nation has lost 3.1 million manufacturing jobs since 1994, and its trade deficit with Mexico and Canada has risen to $138.5 billion in 2007 from $9.1 billion in 1993. You can thank NAFTA for that. Now to end where I began: “Those guys just don’t understand that ideology and economics are not the same thing,” Fletcher said of today’s free traders, including Ludwig von Mises disciples and others cut from a similar cloth. “You can believe in any political ideology you want . . . but economics is supposed to be a discipline of facts.” Uh, moron, economics is facts and not ideology. Try not confusing the two. Here as the facts that simply cannot be denied:

The nation has lost 3.1 million manufacturing jobs since 1994, and its trade deficit with Mexico and Canada has risen to $138.5 billion in 2007 from $9.1 billion in 1993.

You can thank NAFTA for that. Now to end where I began:

“Those guys just don’t understand that ideology and economics are not the same thing,” Fletcher said of today’s free traders, including Ludwig von Mises disciples and others cut from a similar cloth. “You can believe in any political ideology you want . . . but economics is supposed to be a discipline of facts.”

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