[harpseal]

There is little doubt that expanded trade creates, on balance, more jobs than it eliminates, and provides consumers with greater choices at lower cost

Can anyone provide evidence that this staemnent is true? Evidence consists of measurement that includes all factors costs and benefits. Measurements and mathematics not assumptions and anecdotes. Measurements over a two year time period (minimum) but longer if possible.

[Willie Green]

Can anyone provide evidence that this staemnent is true?

Not that I'm aware of. In fact, I believe that Ricardo's theory would infer the opposite in that labor resources are driven to the minimum.

I suppose one could make a convoluted arguement that cheap labor increases the number of jobs "created" because it is more "efficient" than expensive, automated production technology. Globalists are essentially luddites in that respect.

[Paul Ross]

Of course its true. The dis-employed U.S. workers have to find and work three jobs at Wal-Mart, McDonalds and a gas station to make up (only in part) for the loss of their good-paying high-technology jobs. Thus the trade 'created' more jobs than it eliminated...

NOT!

What these shills, whose bias is blatant, do not comprehend, is that what is still true is the old tried-and-true economic understanding that high-technology jobs have a vastly higher 'economic-multiplier' than local service jobs.