Fair Trade candidate vs Free Trade(Pro-NAFTA) .. who gets your vote?

[Union Yes]

Poll question: Fair Trade candidate vs Free Trade(Pro-NAFTA) .. who gets your vote?

If you HAD to judge which candidate to vote for based solely on their stance regarding protecting our current "Free" Trade laws or reforming them for a much fairer system and bringing our jobs back home, which would you choose.

[Sebastian Doyle]

1. Looks like Message Discipline LLC doesn't get New Years Eve off

2 NAFTA votes and a bunch of unrecs right out of the gate?

Geez, tell Rahm to have a heart and let you guys go get shitfaced already. :rofl:

[brentspeak]

2. This poll proves there's DLC and GOP freaks at work here

I just rec'd the thread and voted "Fair trade" in the poll to help even things up.

[tbyg52]

3. Ain't that the truth.

Edited to add that this poll is genius - thanks for smokin' 'em out.

[Hello_Kitty]

5. ROFLMAO!!

Thanks for my belly laugh of the day.

[Union Yes]

7. Hilarious. Happy New Year!

:toast:

[Mojambo]

4. Man, you have to be one brain dead mofo to still support NAFTA. n/t

[Unvanguard]

6. What does "fair trade" mean?

I support certain "fair trade" measures--e.g., I would get rid of US agricultural subsidies and the tariffs protecting US agriculture, an old demand of many fair trade advocates, but that's part of the theory of free trade too, though not the practice. I would let developing countries have more autonomy in trade deals so that they could pursue more active industrial policies to promote their economic growth. I would try to incorporate a framework of environmental protections into trade deals, though ideally this would be done globally, not bilaterally. Depending on how likely it would be to constitute an effective incentive, I would seriously consider tying trade deals to improvement in human rights--and human rights includes a basic framework of workers rights too.

But I would not seek to protect US industries from foreign competition, and I would not approach the task of regulating trade with the intent of pricing foreign workers out of the market to "protect US jobs" (which is a misleading slogan anyway).

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

10. I would imagine it would look something like British mercantilism, except with predator drones

To say the US market is slammed shut to foreign imports and we bomb countries that don't open their doors to US goods and investment.

[HughMoran]

8. Who on earth would vote "Pro-NAFTA"?

Must be a joker or troll.

[madrchsod]

9. gee..... they really do get paid....

must be a bunch of losers working on new years eve

[Yuugal]

11. Kicked for AL From nt