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I suspect if you dig below the surface on this a bit, more of the Tea Partiers are likely to agree with Huckabee rather than Stoessel.
Yeah, right. Even the most zealous free trade ideologues are usually willing to admit that “there are winners and losers” in all these trade agreements.
As a wild example, suppose one country targets an industry--say steel or autos, and sells at a loss to build up its industry and employment, so that the industry moves to the new country. If all of the workers in the old country are suddenly unemployed, or underemployed can't be quickly retrained and moved to areas that need them, you get.... Detroit?
sorry ..free trade hurts progressives
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Anyone claiming to be a free trader, and for free markets, who does not also advocate absolutely open borders and free movement of labor, is just a half-assed free trader who thinks they’re advocating the cool theories the think the cool people should advocate.
And the free movement of labor, as it should, opens up entire other debates, where something other than the supposed lowest production cost of goods and services must be considered.
But anyone not also advocating the free movement of labor, or open borders, is a phony free trader and a phony free marketer.
We don’t HAVE free trade.
Instead, we have a host regulations that inflicts additional costs on our industry and labor, that many other nations are not incurring, giving them a comparative advantage.
Free Trade does not help. Stossel lacks the integrity or belief to allow econoimists who disagree with him on the issue on his show. He doesn’t allow free trade of ideas but imagines that we can sell off our wealth for chinese products indefinitely