Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Free Trade Blurb

Having signed the free-trade petition currently circulating, I answered an email asking for a quotation. Here was what I provided:
Protectionism has been intellectually bankrupt for more than 230 years, so ignorance is no excuse. No public servant can honestly promote peace and prosperity without a policy of international free trade, and anyone who tries is guilty of self-interested populism.

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