Reply #14: And you're not? [View All]

You want American jobs to go to sweatshops overseas? You want everybody to be burger-flippers in the "New Economy"?

You want no choice but to buy slave-labor-produced goods at Wal-Mart? You want to work for a wage that won't support you, much less your family?

How could you NOT be a protectionist at this point? Hell yes, I want to PROTECT American jobs from corporate greed that has all nations racing to the bottom. Hell yes, I want to protect ALL workers from predatory capitalists who toss them on the scrapheap, once their "useful" years are over.

So, yeah, I guess I'M a "Protectionist" too. As are a good number of liberals today (and many conservatives who've seen their high-paying jobs go overseas, too).