Free Trade Cheats Americans by Phyllis Schlafly January 23, 2013
"The re-election of Barack Obama hasn’t done anything to make more jobs available to Americans, and there is no indication that it will. America now has 23 million people who want a fulltime job but can’t find one.
Obama doesn’t think American citizens or businessmen create jobs. . . . In his first presidential debate last year, Obama claimed that passage of free trade agreements with South Korea, Panama and Columbia would create U.S. jobs because they would double our exports and promote his goal of “a seamless regional economy.” One year after Congress passed these trade deals, exports to Korea have declined by more than $1.2 billion in comparison to the same months the year before, while imports have risen.
The official U.S. International Trade Commission admits that the Korea agreement will cause significant job losses, not just in low-end industries, but also make a victim of the electronic equipment manufacturing industry. . . . The trade pact’s 1,000 pages of rules and regulations will be enforced by foreign tribunals. Ron Paul calls this “a sneaky form of international preemptions, undermining the critical checks and balances and freedoms established by the U.S. Constitution.” . . . The main defect with free trade is that, in the words of the old cliche, it takes two to tango. America steps naively onto the dance floor, but Communist China won’t dance.
China protects and subsidizes its home industries and products, forces foreign-owned plants to give China their patents and trade secrets, cheats us with shoddy and dangerous exports, manipulates its currency to keep it artificially low, operates a large network of technology spies in the United States, and pays slave-labor wages to its workers."
More from Schafly: " ... The fine print in China's WTO agreement was in an attached document euphemistically labeled an "accession agreement," which gave China status as a "nonmarket economy" and spelled out thousands of details about special preferences for China ..."
There is nothing the Chinese make that they do not take short cuts on. Nothing they make is dependable. And importers make more per item because they are cheating you. If the chinese ran subway, the 12inch sub would be 10 inches and the bead have a good deal of paper fiber.
Quote: nerd wrote in post #3There is nothing the Chinese make that they do not take short cuts on. Nothing they make is dependable. And importers make more per item because they are cheating you. If the chinese ran subway, the 12inch sub would be 10 inches and the bead have a good deal of paper fiber.
And part of the protein content would be plastic bits left over from manufacturing.
The FDA would then set standards for the allowable amounts of melamine bits in meats and paper fiber in bread.
Quote: Weird Tolkienish Figure wrote in post #5I wouldn't say *everything* the Chinese make is junk. My Iphone was made in China and it's certainly not junk.
I'm not a fan of our trade policy with China but I'd be more want to blame liberalism more than free trade for our current job woes.
Just my $.02.
Well, here's my $0.04 or more.
"Free Trade" as our political elite define it is pure liberalism disguised as something 'free', i.e. pure Newspeak or Cultural Marxism at its finest. Globalism and its "Free Trade" agreements are nothing more than global collectivism/communist/fascism/marxism/crony capitalism all gussied up in a business suit.
The enemy within has been very successful in creating a story for the ‘left’ about economic, social, and environmental ‘justice’ and a story for the ‘right’ about ‘free trade’, 'comparative advantage', and 'profits uber alles' with no reference to patriotism or morality. In the process the writings of Smith and Ricardo have been grossly misrepresented. Both the stories for the left and the right lead to the same place - destruction of the American economy, security, national sovereignty, traditional culture, values and its pesky middle class under the tyranny of global communism or fascism.
"Free Trade" does not equal free markets. "Free Trade" agreements, are designed and enforced by NWO globalists, their minions in Congress, and the unelected bureaucrats at the WTO. "Free Trade" agreements erode our national sovereignty and over ride our immigration law without consideration of our current job situation. National borders are viewed only as an impediment to the free movement of goods and natural persons. This is why we have continued to import ~ 125,000 new legal workers each month despite the worst job market since the Great Depression.
These agreements place American workers and companies (burdened by onerous regulation and taxation) in an untenable competition with global corporations and workers who aren't even bound by minimal standards regarding working conditions, safety, or environment. Note: Global corporations have no problems with these regulations; in fact they support them as a way to suppress competition and start ups.
International corporations have benefited from cheap labor and off shoring at the expense of working middle class taxpayers. Said corporations have passed on part of the cost of their cheap labor in the form of increased taxes to support an expanding safety net, lower or stagnant salaries, dangers to our national security, decreased quality of life, and lower job opportunities. Cheap labor comes in the form of illegal aliens and guest workers who pay no or partial taxes, as well as low wage legal immigrants. Illegal aliens, anchor babies and their extended families alone cost US tax payers net $1/4 - $1/3 trillion per year. Low wage legal immigrant cost net ~$20,000 per household; there are 4.5 million such households.
Small business is being strangled by regulations written by congress using consultants supplied by large international corporate campaign donors. This is crony capitalism / corporatism / fascism.
Access to easy credit and cheap goods have hidden the loss of real income until recently.
In case you are unaware, Karl Marx, promoted free trade {the unfettered movement of capital, freed from all political, national and ethical shackles) as a tool to speed up the destruction of nationalism, and onset of global communism. He knew if global corporations were freed from considerations of patriotism or ethics they would pursue the cheapest labor and working conditions around the globe until we all gladly welcomed 'hope and change'.
Here's plank # 4 of the 45 planks of the communist party for the US: 4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
RIGHT'S RIGHT 
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