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Free Trade Agreements = Evaporated Jobs Worldwide

Free trade has increased the world's welfare. Allowing the free market to work would be best, but mankind will never allow it to work due to greed and fear. Thing is, it's the best model known to man and we must use it.

With free trade, you need perfect transparency. In the long-run, do you think politicians, businesses, and governments want transparency? I don't think so because of self interest and competitive advantages.

If someone figures out how to achieve perfect transpareny the free market will be the best thing since sliced bread. Consumers can be informed, investors can be informed, entrepreneurs can be informed, and scientist and researchers can be informed. Man! Talk about global growth. Like the X-Files, "The Truth Is Out There." Like many of you, I spend countless unproductive hours trying to figure it out. Most times thinking I know, only to find out much later, after much wasted effort, that behold I do not know.

The job situation is indeed troublesome. Someone getting left behind after trying his/her best is most cruel. But we must agree that a great deal of our fellow man do not go into action until it is too late. We must do something about our educational system in the U.S.

While the perfect transparency problem gets worked out, the educational problem was pointed out above and I agree with those thoughts. But we need to have a voucher system and choice so those who want to survive and take responsiblity for their presence can succeed. At the secondary education level, we need to deploy, I hate to say, a more socialist system (since we don't have perfect transparency)like the primary system but with choice. Every person that educates his/herself helps me and you.

Let's face it. Most working people will need to be retrained all their working life. This education must be free to the person missing out on greater income due to the retraining. The education is the only thing that should be free to this person. No other subsistence should be given.