Free trade isn’t the horrible job killer that the doom-sayers claim it is. Free trade increases demand for American goods, decreases the cost of living in America, and makes world a better place for everyone. While I doubt that any of the free trade agreements sitting in Congress right now will be passed in the next four years, we need to fight against the erosion of our current agreements by the Obama administration. Support America. Support prosperity. Support capitalism. Support free trade.

The basic equation of capitalism is with risk comes reward. Without risk, capitalism doesn’t work. We need risk. We need failure. We need to expect failure. We need to accept failure. We need to let failure happen.

I grew up in the big city most of my life. I was fortunate that my parents decided to enroll me in the Boy Scouts, so I was one of the lucky kids who got to get away from the skyline a couple days a month and get out into the country. When I wasn’t distracted by the hysterics of thirty pre-teen kids with minimal adult supervision, I occasionally looked up into the sky and got to see actual stars. Not the usual one or two peaking through the street lights, but true, majestic, beautiful, breathtaking, all encompassing stars.