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In reply to the discussion: Since Free Traders believe America should lower its standard of living to help the rest of the world [View all]gulliver
(13,180 posts)...and back in the corner with their dunce caps.
Republicans turn free trade into the kind of trade that hurts America. Give one of these new wave Republicans a can of gas for your car and they'll pour it on the car. Anything stupid, mean, and extreme is attractive to them.
If Republicans stopped trying to cut taxes on the wealthy we would have more education and infrastructure. And those are the engines of our prosperity. Think how much we could have bought with the $1 trillion we would not have spent on an unnecessary Iraq war if the 5 Republican Supreme Court Justices had not given the presidency to Bush. And we would have had Gore minding free trade with the good of the American people in mind instead of Bush and the Republicans running the economy into the ground.