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<blockquote data-quote="Jogeephus" data-source="post: 598565" data-attributes="member: 4362"><p>Hillsdown, I don't know about the oil in Canada or how the companies are stealing it but no one has been pointing any fingers or saying anything negative toward anyone. The question was whether or not free trade is a good thing and I'm just giving the facts as they have effected me and my state. I agree with John about the government's need to stay out of stuff like this. Just as your country was hit with a quarantine over the BSE incident a few years ago - I think this was wrong. I think it could have been handled differently but it wound up becoming more of a political thing than a health issue. When things go this way, we as producers are the ones who are hurt.</p><p></p><p>In military strategy it is taught that free trade is good as it will stabilize the world by creating jobs and opportunities for people in other countries. This may be true - I don't know - but I doubt it. But I will put laws of nature ahead of this type theory any day. One law I firmly believe in is the law of equilibrium. If you open your borders to free trade without any protection for your citizens then in time everyone will be living in the same conditions. As I see it, we (I'm including Canada in we) are presently at the top and have no place to go but down. This concerns me as I like the way things are now. I like my air conditioning and my heat. I don't care to live in a mud hut or a shack. But if we continue to let other countries undermine our prosperity then I think our standard of living will inevitably go down. </p><p></p><p>So to answer the question, NO I don't think free trade is a good thing. A country, just like a family, needs to take care of its own before it starts worrying about its neighbors.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jogeephus, post: 598565, member: 4362"] Hillsdown, I don't know about the oil in Canada or how the companies are stealing it but no one has been pointing any fingers or saying anything negative toward anyone. The question was whether or not free trade is a good thing and I'm just giving the facts as they have effected me and my state. I agree with John about the government's need to stay out of stuff like this. Just as your country was hit with a quarantine over the BSE incident a few years ago - I think this was wrong. I think it could have been handled differently but it wound up becoming more of a political thing than a health issue. When things go this way, we as producers are the ones who are hurt. In military strategy it is taught that free trade is good as it will stabilize the world by creating jobs and opportunities for people in other countries. This may be true - I don't know - but I doubt it. But I will put laws of nature ahead of this type theory any day. One law I firmly believe in is the law of equilibrium. If you open your borders to free trade without any protection for your citizens then in time everyone will be living in the same conditions. As I see it, we (I'm including Canada in we) are presently at the top and have no place to go but down. This concerns me as I like the way things are now. I like my air conditioning and my heat. I don't care to live in a mud hut or a shack. But if we continue to let other countries undermine our prosperity then I think our standard of living will inevitably go down. So to answer the question, NO I don't think free trade is a good thing. A country, just like a family, needs to take care of its own before it starts worrying about its neighbors. [/QUOTE]
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