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ekyswvahsfan made a perfectly acceptable post. But as usual, the guy who believes himself to be the one suffering the insult, rides in to call eky's mental faculties into question. Please explain to us what in the world NAFTA or TPP has to do with personal liberty? Both of which place restrictions on the where and the how of which American manufacturers trade. We're not free to trade when EPA regulations choke the life out of any manufacturing concern located within US borders. That and a forecasted FY 2016 32.8 % capital gains tax just about killed it, or there would be a few jobs left to be had.

The NAFTA view is the globalist view, and as such governs US trade which affects every American who isn't rich. Furthermore, American industry has been all but eliminated from American soil and so too are American jobs which have been moved to Mexico. And if all that were not enough, the stake through the heart of American industry and commercial entities was certainly the passage, or make that the rammage, of ObamaCare. In fact, the only thing manufactured in the land as we speak are solar panels, wind mills and legislation which are funded by powerless Americans who are compelled to spend what ever might be left of their bank accounts to pay ever rising taxes, for those who don't work but who none the less share in the ever diminishing bounty. Please give us a break from your so-called encouragements, cause from where I sit you could use a little brush up on economics yourself.

Keep waving that protectionist flag for Donald Trump. A person can have economic freedom without political freedom, as many in China do, but one cannot be truly free without having economic freedom. The founders of our nation understand that principle. Ronald Reagan and Milton Friedman understood that concept and applied it in the roaring 1980s. The lesson of the Reagan recovery was apparently lost on you and Donald Trump.

It's ironic that you would be objecting to my support of free trade and economic freedom on Independence Day.