[hedgetrimmer]

The answer? "Free trade" frees trade from congress' constitutional authority to regulate it and gives it to an international body.

[Victoria Delsoul]

That's not what I understand free trade is. Basically, free trade is the mechanism by which reducing or eliminating trade barriers, free markets are able to compete in a global market balancing supply and demand more effectively. Free trade isn't only about trading goods and services, but it is also a way to promote a free market of ideas. Generally, the ones who benefit from this market of ideas are the less developed countries.

If the countries involved in free trade enjoy prosperity and greater development, I don't see how this is bad. After all, America's wealth has a lot to do with 100 years of free trade.

However, I know you won't like my answer, so feel free to have the last word.