Comments on: Obama’s Latest Free Trader http://tradewatch.org.au/blog/2009/02/27/obamas-latest-free-trader/ Find news and analysis of globalisation's impacts on people & the planet and the prospects for fair and sustainable economies, from Global Trade Watch. Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:57:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ray Tapajna http://tradewatch.org.au/blog/2009/02/27/obamas-latest-free-trader/comment-page-1/#comment-794 Ray Tapajna Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:09:13 +0000 http://tradewatch.org.au/blog/?p=143#comment-794 The first thing that needs to be done is to define what Free Trade means. All references relate to trading goods when actually Free Trade has been primarily about moving production and factories from place to place for the sake of cheaper labor. And no one asks who said we had to compete like this in a global economic arena. Why did the U.S. Federal Government sponsor the moving of factories outside the U.S. in 1956. And why did this "temporary" program never end. President Obama wears blinders about issues like this and does not even bring up the fact that the Trade Deficit is a major cause of the current economic crisis. He has everything backwards. See http://www.bizarrepolitics.com/obama-cart-before-horse-economy and http://www.bizarrepolitics.com/cart-before-the-horse-economy demonstrates further how Obama's stimulus package is a dud. The first thing that needs to be done is to define what Free Trade means. All references relate to trading goods when actually Free Trade has been primarily about moving production and factories from place to place for the sake of cheaper labor.
And no one asks who said we had to compete like this in a global economic arena.
Why did the U.S. Federal Government sponsor the moving of factories outside the U.S. in 1956. And why did this “temporary” program never end.

President Obama wears blinders about issues like this and does not even bring up the fact that the Trade Deficit is a major cause of the current economic crisis.

He has everything backwards. See http://www.bizarrepolitics.com/obama-cart-before-horse-economy and http://www.bizarrepolitics.com/cart-before-the-horse-economy demonstrates further how Obama’s stimulus package is a dud.

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