[Toddsterpatriot]

This entire thread is an entertaining read. I especially like the parts where it is suggested that the government should intervene in the market to protect us from (corporate) fascism.

And the funniest part is when these guys still insist that they're conservatives!!

[1rudeboy]

Sometimes I get the impression that folks from Ralph Nader's organization post here. If true, imagine their amusement.

[1rudeboy]

Whose Trade Organization?
A Comprehensive Guide To the WTO

By Lori Wallach and Patrick Woodall
Published by The New Press, Distributed by Norton

Globalization affects our lives every day in myriad ways – often for the worse. Yet, as this eye-opening exposé documents, the current terms of corporate-led globalization are not inevitable, merely one option being imposed by the powerful, secretive and profoundly undemocratic World Trade Organization.

Here is the definitive guide to the WTO. It reveals which WTO terms have led to U.S. job losses, the race to the bottom in wages, unsafe food, attacks on environmental and health laws, and burgeoning international inequality. Want to know why the WTO attracts passionate protests all over the world? Public Citizen advocates Wallach and Woodall carefully document the WTO’s nine-year track record with riveting case-by-case accounts. And, trade is the least of it: this book shows how the WTO chills government actions to fight sweatshops, make life-saving drugs available, and protect endangered species- and even limits our elected governments’ ability to maintain policies on everything from meat inspection to media concentration.

[1rudeboy]

“The staggering deficit total [$617.7 billion in 2004] and its details – that the richest country on the planet is a net importer of advanced technology products such as computers and vehicles, while specializing in exporting scrap metal, soy and hides and skins; or that the U.S, is poised to become a net food importer – are what frame the looming CAFTA fight, because CAFTA is seen as a referendum on a decade of the NAFTA-WTO trade model,” said [Lori] Wallach.
Source:Public Citizen

Sound familiar?