Chad Lupkes (Facebook) CLICK IMAGE TO READMORE ABOUT TPP ON THE AVE So, the President now has the authority to … what? Negotiate without having to worry about Congressional review? Agree to a deal with our Pacific Rim trading partners with no regard to workers rights? I honestly don’t ha[...]
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Is Free Trade Good For US . part 2.
In response to Norm My point us the same. Protectionism raises cost on everything workers buy while encouraging capital flight. How do you feel about Japanese protectionism or french protectionism. Do you think THEIR workers benefit.from the absurd prices for rice and wheat? As for Korean and Ja[...]
NAFTA Is NOT The End of the World!
Norm., with all due respect, your post opposing free trade is way over the top. Free trade agreements SHOULD be a liberal cause. NAFTA, by every measure I have seen, has benefited all three countries. Workers in Canada..or Mexico are people too. Protectionism benefits only those wealthy enough to [...]
April 23rd, 2012 - 9:13 am § in Politics
Tea party a la France
Far right hits historic heights Far-right National Front candidate Marine Le Pen obtained a surprising 18% of the vote in the first-round of France’s presidential election Sunday night. But who will those votes go to in the second round? By Sarah LEDUC (from France 24) Having secured nearly one in[...]
April 2nd, 2011 - 12:34 pm § in Misc.
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“With a bold and brilliantly conceived thesis, skillfully and cogently threaded through more than 500 pages of trenchant writing, Klein may well have revealed the master narrative of our time. And because the pattern she exposes could govern our future as well, The Shock Doctrine could turn ou[...]
Is MIT Moral in Accepting Largesse from David Koch?
from Fire Dog Lake: NYT Gives Us David Koch, Public Benefactor By: Scarecrow Monday January 10, 2011 8:58 am Promoted on: Saturday March 5, 2011 10:33 am John D. Rockefeller The New York Times’ Michael Cooper gives us a fawning tribute to billionaire David Koch, he of the infamous Koch Brothers an[...]
Commentary by Norm: Is Free Trade Good For Us? Pt. 3.
Continuing the thread about free trade Auto workers in Japan and Germany have been paid more than UAW workers in this country have for more than three decades. Your suspicions are flat out wrong. The problem with the cost of building US cars is primarily, tho not exclusively, the cost of worker [...]