Make Your Own Shoes

Why not? After all, trade is bad. Today's Washington Post has an editorial whacking Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats for nixing the trade agreement with Colombia. Like that was a surprise. For them, all trade is bad. All jobs in the US should be protected. Well, why stop there?

I think we should all make our own shoes. After all, that's work that could be done by your family. By buying shoes from a shoe store, you are exporting jobs from your children. Don't you care about your children? As a matter of fact, if you have your children make your shoes, you're exporting a job you could do yourself! The wretched little brutes, their low wages are taking work away from you! So make your own shoes. And everything else, too. After all, you wouldn't want to engage in trade, would you?

My dress shoes. I made them myself. (Image credit)