And toasters are just $5 at Wal-Mart! Everything is perfect!
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Actually, thats just it. Free trade benefits everyone.
Let's take the arguments to the extreme - at the extreme end of those who don't favor free trade are the self sufficient (and impoverished) communes that are common under communism. The other end of free trade had hardly ever been experienced because government gives itself power to block it, thus interfering with the comerical activity of its citizens. Free trade is BLOCKED by government.
Those who are against free trade are for Big Government. Just be honest with yourselves about this because many claim to be 'Conservative' in ideology. If your a Conservative against free trade you are a Conservative for big, powerful and tyranical govenment. Who is government to tell you what you can and cannot buy and sell overseas?
We saw an economic boom after NAFTA and we'll see an economic boom after any free trade agreement. The doom and gloom crowd were wrong!
The similarities between the anti-free trade crowd and liberalism are striking.
Big business has spent 148 million to get CAFTA passed. Think of the 7 million for NAFTA in comparison. We are heading right for a $700 billion deficit.
Fiscal responsibility is a class the Bush Administration skipped