[Tokhtamish]

You are clearly losing your grip.

Every working American who stares at the ceiling at 3am wondering what in God's name is going to happen to his life understands what free trade is doing to this country. The man on the street is right and the starry eyed libertarian is dead wrong.

If you are going to use free trade to disposses whole waves of American workers, don't be surprised when the dispossesed demand a European level social safety net. There are no atheists in the trenches. There are no libertarian free traders on the unemployment line.

[RLK]

If you are going to use free trade to disposses whole waves of American workers, don't be surprised when the dispossesed demand a European level social safety net. There are no atheists in the trenches. There are no libertarian free traders on the unemployment line.

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Amen.

[Recourse]

If you would, answer my question: do you agree with Tom Hayden, Ralph Nader, and the AFL-CIO that free trade is bad?

[JNB]

The logical end result of a massive loss of jobs is a European style welfare state, along with social unrest to go along with it. So far,l mainly though low intrest rats thnaks to the Asian centeral banks buying hundreds of billions of dollars of US Bonds, real estate and related activities such as re-fis has been a big cushion, but that cushion wont have air forever. You made a excellent point a couple of weeks back about having a Victorian era style of economics minus the Victorian era social values to go along with it.