To: 1rudeboy
With free trade agreements (FTAs) with Peru, Colombia, Panama, and South Korea needing congressional approval; Trade Adjustment Assistance up for renewal; the struggle to advance multilateral trade talks in the World Trade Organization (WTO); and, critically, the need to extend the President's trade promotion authority (TPA) this summer, policymakers have ample opportunity to implement a more protectionist policy stance or to stay the course and continue to allow America to reap the benefits of open market policies.Are we operating under unknown pretenses? Free trade would mean no restrictions whatsoever. As long as governments get involved there is no such thing as free trade - just agreements that put America at a disadvantage.
4 posted on
04/22/2007 8:53:12 AM PDT by
raybbr
(You think it's bad now - wait till the anchor babies start to vote.)
To: raybbr
7 posted on
04/22/2007 8:56:11 AM PDT by
1rudeboy
To: raybbr
Free trade would mean no restrictions whatsoever This is the common myth. This is what the average person would probably think before educating himself. Reality is the opposite: only a regulated market can possibly be free.
20 posted on
04/22/2007 10:14:49 AM PDT by
RightWhale
(3 May '07 3:14 PM)
To: raybbr
- just agreements that put America at a disadvantage.Our $13 trillion economy and 4.4% unemployment rate shows that trade is just killing us. LOL!
25 posted on
04/22/2007 5:35:14 PM PDT by
Toddsterpatriot
(Why are protectionists (and goldbugs) so bad at math?)
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