[Hoot Gibson]

LOL, a better question would be when, as of late, are you not either mistaken or making false statements?; But yes you are quite mistaken and yes, I have taken college level economics. And I'm just not going to bite on your deflections anymore. Frankly to my memory it was in times past, but I was the first between the two of us to cite Milton Friedman in a post anyway. But this conversation isn't and wasn't about him. On the contrary, it is and was about your patently false statement of which I have been quoting you on now for lo these last 8 or ten posts now. You made another libelous slander against Trump, (the afore mentioned and oft quoted) and now you're trying to hide behind some smoke screen about Milton Friedman. Milton Friedman cannot be on Trump's advisory team because he is unfortunately, passed on. His proteges or associates as they may prefer to be called, are however still with us and are part of Mr Trump's economic advisory team.

The tariff no matter the percentage as I have told you repeatedly, is a tool, a potential, in the negotiators tool box and as such, should not be taken off the table before negotiations are even convened.

So, if you want to get technical about it, if Milton Friedman's ideas are in a sense timeless, then so too are those associated with him and who now carry on his work. And those who do carry on with his work, now work for Donald J. Trump.

Keep making excuses for Trump, and I will keep refuting them. Nothing in your posts indicate that you have even a basic understanding of economics. If you did, you would not be defending anybody proposing the type of tariffs that failed in the early years of the Great Depression. Maybe you could negotiate a tuition refund.

Making threats on which one is not prepared to make good should not be part of anybody's negotiating toolbox. Trump's threats remind me of Obama's red line threats. Neither one is credible. But both have their own defenders of the indefensible. nicker: