How to silence your friendly neighborhood free trader, quickly. Several times over, in fact.

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6. Children tend to resent being sent to school naked and shoeless.

Remember, we make little clothing and even the cloth from which to make clothing should we choose to do so at home. The textile industry was exported three decades ago. We no longer make shoes except for the military and a few niche markets.

Now you were saying about that responsibility you're laying on people for being consumers?

We were never consulted about offshoring our industry and throwing people out of good paying jobs and into low paid, dead end service jobs.

It is not our fault and any picklefaced attempt to say it is will be doomed to failure.