[Rudder]

Free trade means the removal of the national borders in economy (primarily removal of tariffs) and transferring the economical sovereignity from the nation state to the private international owners while the workers become the freely traded commodity without having any claims based on shared nationality or citizenship.

Not cool at all, this free trade stuff is giving those who work for a living the shaft.

The GOP and Bush are for this? Really?!!

[hedgetrimmer]

We have a government that has switched from loyaltyto the people of this country to loyalty to the internationalists that manage global trade. Congress has taken their constitutional authority to regulate trade and given it to an unelected "minister"(we don't even have minister as a job description in our Constitution) and a global trade organization through GATT. They have nearly destroyed the balance of power by giving fast track trade authority to the president.Fast track now allows the president to negotiate trade deals-- also an unconsitutionaly usurpation of congressional authority.

Everyone who promotes "free trade" never tells you the unconstitutional measures that were taken to implement it. They don't talk about how setting America up for global free trade has nearly destroyed our Constitution and reorganized the balance of power away from elected representatives and the people to the unelected and foreign entities in the global trade organizations.

In short, "free trade" has been nothing less than the total usurpation of the sovereignty of the American people and the rendering of our Constitution as meaningless. When free traders say, "don't I have the right to do whatever trade I want in a free country?" You can say, the Constitution doesn't protect you anymore because it has been usurped. No, you only have the rights that the WTO, NAFTA, GATT and the FTAA gives you which really are none.