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  • Skilled Workers Mount Opposition To Free Trade, Swaying Politicians

    10/25/2003 8:49:15 PM PDT · by cp124 · 4 replies · 106+ views
    WSJ ^ | 10/25/03 | cp124
    Skilled Workers Mount Opposition To Free Trade, Swaying Politicians By MICHAEL SCHROEDER and TIMOTHY AEPPEL Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL A new anti-free-trade movement is emerging in the U.S., comprising highly skilled workers who once figured they would be big winners in the globalized economy but now see their white-collar jobs moving overseas in growing numbers. The new opponents to lowering trade barriers are especially vocal, and their complaints already are getting the attention of Congress and the White House. Their concerns got an unexpected boost Thursday when Intel Corp. Chairman Andy Grove, a pioneer in the American...
  • A Trip Down Possumtrot Road

    10/21/2003 1:54:50 PM PDT · by Congressman Billybob · 39 replies · 442+ views
    Special to Free Republic ^ | 21 October 2003 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)
    Last week I drove down Possumtrot Road, deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains. It's in Yancey County, one of the most rural and least populated of North Carolina's 100 counties. Possumtrot Road is at an altitude of about 2,800 feet, but it is lined on both sides with rich bottom land. Much of that land lies fallow; many of the barns are falling to wrack and ruin. And thereon hangs a tale. First, a touch of geology. The Blue Ridge is the southern section of the Appalachian Chain, formed about 250 million years ago when the tectonic plate that is...