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Step 1: free trade. Step 2: free labor. nt valerief Jun 2015 #1

But the various proponents of "free trade" only want money to be free, not labor. guillaumeb Jun 2015 #2

valerief

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1. Step 1: free trade. Step 2: free labor. nt

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Tue Jun 23, 2015, 07:25 PM

Jun 2015

guillaumeb

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2. But the various proponents of "free trade" only want money to be free, not labor.

Reply to valerief (Reply #1)

Tue Jun 23, 2015, 07:34 PM

Jun 2015

Robert Heinlein wrote "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch". If that is true, if everything has a price, we already have the example of CAFTA, NAFTA, and GATT as to the price of so-called free trade.

Free trade has resulted in the export of relatively highly paid, unionized manufacturing jobs, and replaced them with minimum waged and benefitted "McJobs" and Wal-Mart associate positions.