[hedgetrimmer]

The goal of "free trade" is to "alleviate poverty", not eliminate tariffs.

[hedgetrimmer]

we cannot afford to miss this once-in-a-generation opportunity to ...lift millions of people out of poverty

At what price?

[Willie Green]

The goal of "free trade" is to "alleviate poverty", not eliminate tariffs.

The goal of "free trade" is to establish a transnational corporate feudal system where CEOs are sovereign and citizens are reduced to subsistance serfdom.

[A. Pole]

In addition, nations reinforced their commitment to development with significant new pledges of so-called aid for trade. This will help create the legal, administrative and physical infrastructures needed to help developing countries participate fully in the market openings we hope to achieve in the Doha Round. The United States is proud to lead the world in providing such assistance, and as part of the Doha Round, we announced a doubling of our contributions over the next five years from the current level of roughly $1.3 billion a year to $2.7 billion annually.

USA pride bump.

[Last Dakotan]

We never will be able to control other country's markets - only our own. Thus they only way we have to get access to other markets is by selectively restricting access to our own. Trade has to be negotiated on a bilateral basis.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

We believe that expanded market access, particularly in agriculture, is the key to a final agreement.

Our -- how's it go, "buggywhip," is that what "free traders" say? -- farmers need to get into them high-payin' modern jobs which are about to explode everywhere coast-to-coast.. any day now...

Yes by all means. Let's open our supermarket bins to produce from countries that carry human waste from nearby villages and towns to pour on crops.

Talk about cheap lettuce!

Wot?

We already have.. oh.

[dennisw]

Screw free trade. Why do we sign these dumbass trade deals?

[neutrino]

The goal of "free trade" is to "alleviate poverty", not eliminate tariffs.

(Chuckle) So it's sorta kinda like a welfare program, isn't it?

I suppose I can understand why Karl Marx supported it....