FREE TRADE...or FAIR TRADE... There is a BIG DIFFERENCE

[KoKo]

When we do JACK BOOTS STOMPING over all COUNTRIES or we GIVE AWAY AMERICAN MANUFACTURING without WORKERS RIGHTS...there IS A DIFFERENCE.

I'm SICK OF SEEING...on a DEM WEB SITE thse disgusting "FREE TRADE" Posts from Trolls from Heritage Foundation, AEI, CATO or Brookings coming here and spreading their LIES! :puke:

Here's one view from "Nation" Magazine:

http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:Uff3eFDDoLQJ:www.thenation.com/doc/20070205/nichols_brown+Free+Trade+vs.+Fair+Trade,+Nation+Magazine&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a

And for "FAIR TRADE" here's Lou Dobbs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIRHN_ErYGg

[Hello_Kitty]

1. This unemployed DUer is happy to give you a K and R. eom

[NutmegYankee]

2. Indeed!

I don't mind fair trade, but nations with sweat shops, low pay with no benefits and horrid environmental protections should be face steep tariffs.

[Sandrine for you]

3. I agree. nt.

[KoKo]

4. It's awful out here in America where they are Emphasizing getting the "Consumer to Spend"

and all the stimulus is based on us CONSUMING...and not on the fact that the JOBS ARE GOING ....GOING...GONE! What good has Wall Street done but give Wharton, Harvard and other MBA MILLS and Idiot Economists who look at "Financial Models" the run of their lives raking in the $$$$$$$$$$'s

WE ARE BROKE. THE MODEL IS BROKE...This TRADE DEAL THING HAS DONE US IN! ALL OF US!

[terisan]

5. Agree on the Ivy League MBA grads -the smart ones steal/the not as smart ones just screw up. nt

The consumers have just gotten too smart to spend.


apologies to any DU grads of such establishments--the exceptions to the rule.

[GeorgeGist]

6. By definition there is no profit in ...

fair trade.

[DCKit]

7. Not if it's based on a communist model.

But in the capitalist model, everyone along the supply chain makes a profit. Just as in every other business transaction.

"Fair Trade" simply implies that the people at the bottom of the supply pyramid get fair value for their goods and services and that the majority of profit is not skewed toward the top of that same pyramid - the fat, rich, greedy bastards we've all come to know and despise.

Got it?

[Waiting For Everyman]

8. Bingo! That tells us they are part of the cause of it.

Trolls, outsourcers, banksters, H1Bers, etc... vultures, predators, and scavengers of various types... all benefitting from our decline in various ways.

I'm not that worried anymore though. British workers are striking now. When they've had enough and do that, the writing is on the wall for globalism. They are as slow to revolt as we are. That tells you something. Go Brits!

[robcon]

9. Fair Trade is a fraud.

It's all about protecting politically connected companies and industries. It steals American jobs. It's totally bogus.