Harry Pollard wrote: > Free trade merely means allowing goods to enter a country without > hindrance from tariffs, quotas, and anti-dumping duties.
That may be your romantic perception (or distortion) of what Free Trade means, but the reality is that Free Trade means "trade that is free of hindrances (barriers to trade)", and --like it or not-- _any_ labor or environmental regulation can be seen as a "barrier to trade" by the FT fanatics. Even if it is not "formally" defined as a trade barrier, it will be seen as one in practice, i.e. the corporations will "vote with their feet" by moving factories to the countries with the lowest regulations. This is the transnational rat race to the bottom, and this is what FT is about. Anyone who denies this is fooling himself or those who are gullible enough to believe him. And no amount of splitting hairs and misrepresenting me (as below) will change that, Harry. > Chris wrote" > > Harry Pollard wrote: > > You said: > > > > " It would be a big interference to abolish any and all > > regulations . . " > > > > You mean that in our 75,000 pages of the Federal Register you > > cannot imagine abolishing one regulation? > > CHRIS: Another strawman. FT is not just about abolishing _one_ > regulation in 75,000 pages, or is it ? Rather, it is about > abolishing as many as possible, because any regulation is a > "trade barrier"... > > HARRY: As usual absolute nonsense. "Abolish any" means "abolish > any one". I wrote "abolish any and all". > So, you say it would be a big interference to abolish one > regulation in those 75,000 pages. No that's not what I said, and that's not what FT is content with. Chris > Here I go again, showing my > infinite patience in the face of deliberate ignorance. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
