Just to let you know, I don’t how much posting I’ll be doing this week. My parents are florists, so I have to work in the shop over Valentine’s Day. Hopefully, I’ll have some posts for you after Wednesday, but on Friday I’m headed to the Sodom and Gomorrah on the Mighty Mississipp’ for Mardi Gras. Between the heavy drinking and gorging on Cajun food, I’ll investigate first hand how the rebuilding is going and report back….maybe.
Update: I forgot to mention that I have a new article up at LewRockwell.com, which can serve as a substitute for a few posts.
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Send me an email. I live in STL and found your website from LewRockwell. I’m sure we could talk endlessly about current affairs…I’m a finance major at the local college finishing up this semester.
Mr. Payne and Patrick
Read your column on LRC today….pretty good until your attempt at addressing free trade.
Linkage and hurling epithets is most amatuerish and not conducive to freedom…or promoting it.
Free trade is that…does it exist today? of course not…and your Hegelian dialectic of “free trader” libertarians vs PBJ and Lou Dobbs belies YOUR statist agenda of UN/WTO “allowed” “free trade”..but then global statist “free trade” is bipartisan and bipolar..
At least PBJ and Dobbs are warning about what the Globalist “free traders” are aiming for…
which is one seamless integrated and centralized “Free Trade Zone”….
Do still want to be on THAT socialist Team????
I won’t deny that there are a number of barriers to free trade and that the WTO often acts contrary to its stated goals of decreasing those barriers, and it also could be a stalking horse for a one-world government. Now, I certainly oppose any attempt to make that happen, so I oppose most supra-national organizations on those grounds. However, I still think we are better off in the WTO with lower tariffs than out of it with higher ones not only because it makes everyone richer but because global trade can also lead to more power vested in individuals than in governments of any kind.