[Lazamataz]

Laz, buddy, you drank the Koolaid too?

Well, I won't agree about koolaid, but ... heck man, how can we have free trade that is FAIR trade, if they are using prison labor, artificially manipulating their currency to undercut us, not following even the most BASIC environmental and labor safety rules, and so on?

Free trade should mean fair trade, too. And it doesn't. We are exporting our last category of jobs to India and Asia -- white collar jobs. What will we do for work? We're busy destroying the American middle class as quickly as possible! That's not a sensible thing to do. We'll head the way of Argentina.

I've actually had some diehard Unfair Traders tell me that when all the white collar jobs are gone, we'll all just be CEO's. Now, how much sense does that make???

[MonroeDNA]

Let's not do business with communist countries. I am a die hard there.

Labor safety and environment are a different subject. It sounds good, except it will cut off all trade. We have evolved much more than other cultures. If we cut them off, rather than encourage them to evolve, it's lose-lose.

They won't change, and we'll pay $200 for a beer cooler.

It took us a hundred years to make the workplace safe. That is 100 years after we went capitalist. Give them 20 years.