Free Trade Treaties Mean Impoverishment

The Wall Street Journal ^ | October 4, 2007 | Bernie Sanders

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I think we’re saying the same thing. Mencken just said it better.

Gogos: a herdsman. Hence “pedagogue”, a slave employed to shepherd children and “demagogue”, one who herds people.

[Realism]

softwood lumber dispute with Canada over the last five years

Five years? More like on and off for several decades. Disputes should to be expected when a trading partner can produce and basically dump large quantities of a product into a market which cannot compete because the economic overhead costs are much higher.

[L,TOWM]

Point taken.

And given the disparity between federally mandated benefits, environmental, and labor law burdens -- I would have to say that the US is nuts to sign on to free trade arrangements with most of the developing nations in this world.

Does'nt apply to Canada, of course, since the goobermint shackles on Canadian capitalists are probably more intense than those here in the "land of the free."

I do find it ironic that the socialist Sanders whines about the "destruction" of Meh-hico's agricultural business to "cheap US imports." If this nimrod would secure our border and deport the cheap labor enjoyed by Archer Daniels Midland, Swift, General Mills, etc., the Meh-hiccan citizens here would go back to their native land and do what they doing 30 years ago -- farming for their patron and barely getting by.

[Toddsterpatriot]

"The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."

Sounds like Corsi.

[1rudeboy]

Speaking of socialists (and economics), anyone else getting a chuckle over this whole Media Matters issue?

[Toddsterpatriot]

Speaking of socialists (and economics), anyone else getting a chuckle over this whole Media Matters issue?

Were some of our favorite True Conservatives^TM using them for a source?

[1rudeboy]

Not recently. After this, hopefully never.

[Toddsterpatriot]

I wouldn’t bet big money on that.

[BfloGuy]

“Countries” don’t trade, individuals do.

Worth repeating -- I wish more people understood that.

[mysterio]

Free Trade Treaties Mean Impoverishment

That can't be true. Just look at how rich the average Mexican peasant has gotten since NAFTA.

[1rudeboy]

You may see NAFTA as a jobs program for Mexican peasants, I do not. I’d rather concern myself with American workers.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Feelings, whoa whoa whoa feelings.

[Toddsterpatriot]

You evil exploiter.

[1rudeboy]

Do you have any data on Mexican per capita income at your fingertips? Over time? I may look it up later, if I’m bored.

[Toddsterpatriot]

No.

[mysterio]

You may see NAFTA as a jobs program for Mexican peasants

Not so much.