Why do the "For Sale or Rent" Representatives in the Versailles Congress continue with this maddening devotion to Adam Smith and Free Trade policies, like the Columbian Free Trade Agreement?.  A drive along any major river, replete with abandoned factories, should be evidence that Free Trade is a failed policy, from a utilitarian point of view.  But, Free Trade a boon to the international plutocracy that rule like robber barons and use factories as fiefs.  Free Trade is an insidious, if not treacherous, policy that claims to give the citizens access to foreign made goods at cheaper prices.  It is the same economic policy of the Confederate States of America.  We use brown-skinned cheap labor for the large, agri-business plantations and allow our factories to languish.  Yes, free trade does allow for cheaper goods, but at what expense?  If we returned to the wise policy of Alexander Hamilton and imposed tariffs, we would first of all find a better way to feed the ever-gluttonous "Leviathan", the government. The added cost of goods in an economy relying on tariffs would be offset by a decrease in the amount of personal and corporate taxation that our bloated bureaucracies extort.  The liberals are also to be faulted for the ills of a free trade policy.  Progressive Democrats are continuously trying to impose the rules, regulations and restrictions.   Liberals issue thousands of counter-productive mandates through the hundreds of bureaus and departments that infest our land.  The imposition of environmental restrictions, and labor regulations, and the mandated cost of maintaining an employee are too burdensome on domestic industries that must compete against third-world, "most favored nation" trading partners, like China.  Our competitors have no effective environmental or workers' rights policies imposed upon their foreign factories.  Washington can not foist all these environmental and social welfare restrictions on domestic business and tell them to compete against foreign industries. The Third World factories, owned wholly in part by Western financiers, are reminiscent of the early Industrial Revolution times of Charles Dickens or Upton Sinclair.  If the Democrats insist on such restrictions, (or from a Democrat's point of view; protections), then they must insist on Hamiltonian protections for imports.  The Democrats have fettered our factories and businesses with fines, diktats, regulations and restrictions.  Meanwhile, the "let them eat cake" Republicans force American businesses to compete with companies that not only have low wages, but no health care, social security, compensation and other cost.  I can only conclude this is done to benefit Americans who have become business partners with Communist China and are part owners of the foreign factories that put Americans out of work.  In addition, it seems clear that the Bush Administration and the RNC wish to complete Aaron Burr’s goal of a united North America, ruled by an elite aristocracy from their haciendas.   Perhaps this also explains Congress’ refusal to protect our borders, since their plans for our future is an amalgamation of the people from Canada to Columbia into one unified region ruled by Chinese, Castilian and American elites.  It is the international plutocracy, (including the wealthy American who control both parties), that invest in the third world to sell in the First world. These wealthy factory owners and financiers will become feudal lords imposing a negative balance of trade. It seems as if both liberal and “Free Trade” conservatives seem intent on re-instating the old English system of Mercantilism, in which the Empire’s government grants charters of monopoly to favored business to the detriment of the free enterprise liberty of the domestic common citizen.  If you think it is bad now, what till the aristocracy start rationing and restricting carbon usage in America.  The Carbon credit monopoly scheme will conveniently and lucratively, allow China, and the third world factories to have unrestricted and unregulated usage of all the coal and oil their factories can consume.  Under the ruse of a fabricated environmental catastrophe, there will be additional loss of American manufacture, job loss and wage reductions as American citizens compete for scarce economic resources with the aliens the Republican and Democratic leadership welcomed into our country.  This is the agenda of Senators Obama, Clinton and John McCain.  Hey brother can you spare a dime?  Better learn to say that in Spanish

Mike Guy