Jonh B Cobb: Free Trade
Date Submitted: 11/29/2004 09:49:38
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 2 pages (536 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 2 pages (536 words)
I would completely agree with some points that Mr. Cobb made in his book Sustained the Common Good about Free Trade Agreements with Mexico and Canada and serious consequences we, as Americans, might face in a near future.
Free trade, despite the textbook arguments in its favor, creates a basic problem: In a situation with free movement of goods and technology and capital - but not of labor - what happens? Employers tend either (a)
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destructions and there is not way of coming back. Common folks are getting hurt by our senseless politician and immoral economic gurus.
There is, perhaps, a real conflict of moral goals involved in this blindness to one's fellow citizens. A generation raised on the idea of a shared planet, for whom the only "aliens" are from outer space, may find it hard to value a U.S. worker's prosperity higher than a foreigner's.
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