Tornado Alley (PROG)

[fuagf]

B402, Krugman isn't perfect. Free trade is not free. Free trade is not fair. However Krugman does admit when he is wrong. Free trade is freer than trade was before freighters and the internet existed. Free trade is benefits some more than others. Globalization has pulled many from poverty. Very little in our world is perfect. Some individuals come across as seeming to think they themselves are, if not, close to perfect. . Below are some picked out on a "free trade" search wander. In searching for one specific one when it isn't found, still others are good to see again:

"$1.00 an hour labor, no health benefits, no retirement plans, no unions,
no environmental regulations.......Boy oh boy this is great!"

Cutting Wages Won't Solve Big Three's Problems
2008 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=33998035

U.S.-Backed Oil Law Is "Robbery"
Iraqi Oil Workers' Union Founder: U.S.-Backed Oil Law Is "Robbery"
2008 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=33871212

Is this the end of US capitalism?
[...]The evolution of good conduct is defined by effective rules. John McCain [the Republican presidential
candidate] lectures on the morals of Wall Street but they are no more or less corrupt than other humans.
[...]Gerald Friedman, economics professor, University of Massachusetts
P - The end of US capitalism? I really doubt it.
[...]There is no such contender on the horizon right now to challenge capitalism. So, we'll continue to muddle along.
P - insert: JUST GIVE IT MORE OF A HUMAN FACE IN PLACES .
2008 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=32440654

Gawd, lol, this from 2007 was obviously fueled ..
Good i figured you would as any any bit reasonable person must.
P - Have you ever wondered why, "causes", "is causing" or
"has caused" is so much of the lexicon rather than
"contributes to" which is obviously how it should be?
[...]A MORE PSYCHOLOGICALLY UPLIFTING SURVIVAL IS DEPENDENT
UPON A MORE EQUITABLE AND HONEST COEXISTENCE AND THIS
ESCALATING INEQUITIES THING IS JUST TOO DUMB A ROAD TO BE ON.
P - IT IS INTERESTING, EVEN AMAZING TO ME THAT SO MANY OF THOSE
WHO SUBMIT TO EXTERNAL PSYCHE AND MORAL AUTHORITY ARE THOSE
WHO JUSTIFY THAT OTHERS MUST SUBMIT TO THEM.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=22269810

Yep, the most needy should get their fairest share. Haven't looked lately,
but i think Europe is still trying to help out small farmers more than we have.
2009 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=35246824

Free trade is costing millions: report
[...]The Productivity Commission has told the government there is little evidence to suggest Australia's six free-trade agreements have produced ''substantial commercial benefits''.
P - Some may have actually reduced trade by introducing complex rules that make it difficult to sell goods made with products imported from countries not in the agreements.
2010 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=58309015

Protectionism Made in the USA
By Joseph Stiglitz
Project Syndicate
April 2002
America's imposition of tariffs on imported steel has been greeted with a howl of protest around the world. But harsh words have not been followed by a strong counter-attack. Now is the time to confront America's hypocrisy, not to bluster.
P - The global financial crisis of 1997/1998 - mismanaged by the IMF, largely at the direction of the US Treasury - led to an increased flow of steel imports. But that is part of the market adjustment process the US trumpets so loudly at other times.
2010 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=46896364

OOPS! BOEHNER $350 BILLION HOLE .. Debt crisis: Republicans scramble to rewrite plan following figures bungle
Embarrassment for Congress speaker John Boehner after budget office finds $350bn hole in his original proposal
2011 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=65595116

How Somalia's Fishermen Became Pirates
[...]Ever since a civil war brought down Somalia's last functional government in 1991, the country's 3,330
km (2,000 miles) of coastline — the longest in continental Africa — has been pillaged by foreign vessels.
2011 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=64623776

SWEATSHOPS
2011 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=61293395

The 0.01 Per Cent: The Rising Influence of Vested Interests in Australia
2012 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=81738568

conix - Pigs at the Trough: [ original emphasis ]
The Corporate Welfare State in America
2012 - https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=79740291

Social Security isn't '21st century slavery'
[...]"I think it was Chris Rock who made fun of the fact, 'Well, it might be Independence Day, but the slaves
weren't free then.' Look at it this way, if America had not become independent, slaves might still be slaves."
P - As a matter of history, that doesn't make any sense at all. If the United States were still under the crown, African Americans might still be slaves? There's no real ambiguity here: the United Kingdom banned slavery in 1833. Parts of Canada ended the slave trade as far back as 1793. The United States didn't end slavery until after the Civil War in 1865.
P - The only way slavery would have continued is if the South had won the Civil War --
and apparently some on the right now believe that wouldn't have been so bad. ..
http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/06/12603883-ted-nugent-it-might-have-been-best-if-south-won-civil-war?lite
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=77345218

Didn't find the one i was looking for.