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Originally Posted by Slon
Boo hoo! I guess lazy and incompetent American workers will have to compete with foreigners. How sad! 
You haven't actually shown how that will "destroy the US economy." With protectionism, the lazy and incompetent have jobs, yes, but prices also go up. Without it, prices go down, and perhaps Americans will actually work competitively rather than having the government practically forcing employers to hire retards. The worst that can happen is jobs will go down and the right man for the job (the foreigner) will get it. |
You have no idea who the Democrat and Republican voters are. Democrats, although not historically, are socialist-protectionists.
Recently a majority of Republicans have big doubts about free trade, and that doubt has already surpassed the 50% mark. Republicans are historically protectionists.
I see you are a Ron Paul supporter. Ron Paul will never win an election with an attitude like that. Ron Paul is obviously running on a skeleton crew of Libertarians. Libertarians never won big in the 3rd party arena. The last 2 big 3rd parties was the Green Party (Socialist-protectionist) and Ross Perot (fair-trader).
Calling the American worker lazy, incompetent, and obsolete will never get the Democrat vote.
Calling the American worker lazy, incompetent, and obsolete will never get the Republican vote.
It should be noted for anyone considering voting for Ron Paul, that this is the way Libertarians think.