Oh Come On, Hill

There are myriad reasons to oppose Hillary Clinton’s whitehouse bid, but something that happened this weekend put me over the edge.

Clinton has voiced her opposition to free trade before, primarily during the battle over the Corn Belt states, like Ohio.  When news hit the wires that her chief pollster/strategist Mark Penn took a meeting with Colombian government to help them secure passage of a bilateral free trade agreement, Clinton fired him.  Apparently it was no matter to Hillary that Mark Penn’s meeting was done in his private-sector role as a public relations consultant and completely out of the scope of the presidential campaign.

Penn’s firing paints Hillary not only as an outspoken opponent of free trade, put also an opponent of free speech and freedom of thought.   Penn assisted a cause that Hillary is publicly opposed to, and instead of respecting the difference of opinion between them, she punished him for his independence.

Americans (and all citizens of the world) need to stand up for good economics in the name of free trade, and stand against those who stifle progress and the expansion of prosperity.  Hillary Clinton, I stand against your trade policy, and strongly suggest you take a basic economics class and banish your Caveman-era protectionism.