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  • Free Trade Agreements = Evaporated Jobs Worldwide  [View article]
    The whole purpose of "free trade" (nothing in life is free) is to break down national boundaries. Nations which have their economic sovereignty handed over to a supernational authority lose their independence. This helps to bring about regional governments such as NAFTA, African Union, EU, etc. Eventually these blocs will be merged into a single world government.

    And if you wonder what kind of government, world government would be like, pick up a Franz Kafka novel, if reading the NAFTA or WTO charters bore you too much.
    Dec 15 10:02 am |Rating: +3 -2 |Link to Comment
  • Free Trade Agreements = Evaporated Jobs Worldwide  [View article]
    Smoot-Hawley did not cause the depression. The FED did.


    On Dec 15 08:07 AM jamesa40 wrote:

    > Temporarily halt free trade agreements? Did you not learn anything
    > from the depression? Remember Smoot/Hawley? That anti-free trade
    > policy is one of the leading causes of the depression. By creating
    > an anti-trade policy, other countries responded in kind. Therefore,
    > our continuing increase (and reliance) on exports in this recession
    > today would evaporate, compounding the very problem you wish to cease.
    Dec 15 09:58 am |Rating: +1 -1 |Link to Comment
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