Sadly for the free trade crowd, it certainly isn’t helping the economics issues in this Great Recession. Ask the exporting Asian nations just how well free trade is working for them - or look at our upcoming issues with the dollar and dependence upon external buyers of our Treasury debt - and we see that this “free trade” dogma has been an utter farce.
And now the bill is coming due. Quickly.
“Free trade” dogma is one of the things where the GOP’s position looks absolutely silly in light of the rather brutal truth that mucks up their beautiful theory.
You're right, because only the government can properly decide the correct flow of trade.
Why are the unions not out there fighting for free trade agreements to expand their wages and job security?
Now this thread is going to get real funny!
Does anyone know something about the history of our free trade of the past twenty years? Who was behind this? Was it the manufacturers or was it Wall Street? Was this a CFR scheme?