The smell is pouring out of Yasafi's ears as his brain burns up from cranial overload, and I swear the smell so powerful that it can travel through the internet.

(Inspired by a post from Og)

If that does not suit your semantic sensibilities then you are the one who is intellectually dishonest. To say that the US does not trade with China and India is dishonest and stupid. So what if they have tariffs on US products. The US government reciprocates to the detriment of all consumers here.

One of my businesses in the Detroit area uses trucks to perform our services. If we were to be so bold as to wish to purchase a truck manufactured outside of the US we are hit with a 25% tariff. That has the effect of driving up the cost of US manufactured trucks as well. All so that a few individuals employed in the manufacture of trucks in the US can receive above market wages and the companies they work for can be shielded from global competition.

If you do not like buying products made in China and India then I suggest you stop doing so. No reason you can give would justify your imposition of your preference on me.

I live in Detroit and see first hand the debilitating effects of government over-regulation and excessive taxation on businesses in the area but I can only imagine the oppressive effects of the heavy hand of government with which the entrepreneurs in China and India must contend. By all accounts the governmental burden is even worse than here.

Read Don Boudreaux's Globalization lately?

Taken a good look at the China tariff schedule, lately? Read a good dictionary, lately? Seen the migrations of tens of thousands of formerly well-employed factory workers in Michigan and Ohio lately? Seen those states' shattered economies lately?

Read a good book on the French Revolution, lately?

Living in an apartment, one old car, and pinching pennies as never before I was very thankful for WalMart. The difference in the cost of diapers alone between Walmart and anywhere else saved us a considerable amount of trouble.

Of course there were other huge savings, but the diapers stood out in my mind as the largest difference.

We have started shopping more at Safeway recently as their prices are more competitive than before. And I do confess that I hate going to Walmart. It's a real zoo. Though they have opened a Walmart not far from here in an upscale neighborhood that looks and feels just like Albertsons, just much larger of course.

So all in all it seems that Walmart is making efforts at being a more physically comfortable shopping experience while some of the regular grocers are managing to get their prices down.

Since Lucy brought home fruit from her gatherings of the day so she would have profit for tomorrow, just show me one person stupid enough to want to go backwards, except for a stupid socialist, a luddite?

The whole of human history is a documented struggle to go upward and forward, not backward; but only a broken brain socialist like yourself could look at the picture you linked and not realize that the reason those people are there is because it is worse where they came from.

The exact same reason why so many young Americans left the farm in the industrial revolution to exchange 7 day a week dawn to dusk back breaking labor for 6 day a week of 10 hours of back breaking labor for many multiples of rewards over what they left behind on the farm. Yeah it was still hard, but infinitely better than what they left behind.

But you are too stupid to even imagine such a thing much less acknowledge it as reality.

http://cafehayek.com/2009/10/socialism-kills.html