A few years ago , in a small seaside town in the north west of England called fleetwood , a ship filled with jaffa cakes grounded and the beaches were covered in packets of jaffa cakes for weeks . <| sep |> If a person is impaired when they consume 1 oz . of alcohol or less , the solution is pretty clear Give them more than 1 oz . of alcohol . <| sep |> Free trade isn ' t a conservative policy . It would mean that I would have had to pay about $ 5000 more for my 1988 Ford Eddie Bauer V 8 Explorer I bought in 1999 . I could have afforded that . Maybe . But it would have meant that you ' d have spent $ 5000 less on something else or you ' d have saved $ 5000 less , so someone would have had $ 5000 less to invest . By shifting that $ 5000 to Detroit , you ' re taking $ 5000 from someone else ' s income . Why are the people in Detroit more deserving than that unknown other person ? Wouldn ' t it be more conservative to argue that if everyone pays a little more for stuff made here , by people who work here , we are better off than having it made south of the border and inviting our people to go work there at their prevailing wages ? Yeah , that ' s a pretty conservative argument . The free trade response is that the people on the other side of the border aren ' t altruists . They ' ll only export cars to another country if they ' re getting something in return . Plus , if the people north of the border stop buying things made south of the border , then people south of the border won ' t have any income to buy things made north of the border . The gains in income people in the north get from trading more with other people in the north are offset by the loss in income from the south not being able to trade anymore . And because you ' re stopping trade , you , north and south , overall get fewer goods for your money .