Good on ya Dan.
While I am not anti-free-trade, I've come to realize that while we may be
better economically on average with free trade, unfortunately the benefits
have accrued to a very few and the disbenefits to many. In other words
corporations and their management are enjoying enormous salaries and
bonuses, workers stagnant wages as the good value-added jobs disappear
overseas and we're left with low-value retail jobs. But average everything
together and our GDP is higher.
We should have truly free trade with economic equivalents: Europe and Japan.
Managed trade with everybody else mostly to help them grow without
sacrificing our own workers. Shaped by the 1960s I grew up seeing how
effective government/private could work together. No longer.
I voted for Ralph Nader in the general election. His ideas were mainstream
stuff just a few decades ago. How far we've come!
