The weasels have been doing this all along. Once NAFTA proved to be a bust, CFR participants, including the World Bank, realized more had to be done and in such a way as to deceive the American voter. They had the best intentions...rising tide lifts all boats, Third World countries enjoying brighter future, capitalism solves all problems. Unfortunately, the road to you know where is paved with good intentions, and the big brains in the CFR and World Bank never considered the possibility of everybody heading for the US by hook or by crook. Talk about stupid.
You're right. Free trade wherein we are the only ones playing by the "free" rule is nothing more than the redistribution of wealth on an international scale, something some of the same republicans who support this deride when it applies to our own citizens.
Stupid, or intentional, is debatable. But, what they're working toward is a system of elites and servent underclass. With only allegiances to capitalism and not our nation, guess where the majority of Americans lie on their scale of importance.
Third world countries outside of africa are enjoying a brighter future and capitalism is improving people's lives everywhere and the US has a very low unemployment rate, with a rising stock market, a euphoric real estate market, cheap goods at walmart, and this is in spite of the 2000 dot com collapse, a war in iraq, and 67 dollar oil. I'd say things are going pretty well.