http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/...n1446887.shtml
One of the most puzzling things to me in this day and age is the abilty of people now to be utterly sure the other side is evil and thus never has a valid point.
I'm basically a free market person, don't believe in big government, don't believe in trade wars by and large but then again I'm not so caught up in my own beliefs that I can't agree when the other side hits a home run.
What we call free trade is only free for the other guy, what we aren't paying attention to is that we are assisting the greatest migration of wealth in history because it's now possible to move money and power globaly.
The one kink in the free market rosy scenario is this, the controlers of the wealth do not suffer when Americans lose jobs as in the past, what they are doing is moving the show lock stock and barrell to a new theatre and it's not going to hurt them to do so one bit.
We stupidly didn't factor in the revolution in technology that allows a guy to sit in his mansion and count his money controled outside the US, this failure is monumental and frankly blind stupid.
It's too late now, were on the road to ruin, we may be able to dig our way out but it's infinitely harder than it ever had to be.
We sit by and allow a host of violations of our principles in the name of a buck, we don't demand standards of other countries near our own and in doing so we're selling our future and our ability to maintain those values right out from under our own nation.
Will everyone be poor? No not at all, the creme of the crop will probably do very well, but for a marginally educated steel or auto worker, it's lights out.
We built a nation on the backs of those type of people, when they go down, we all will suffer.
This guy may be the worst politician on earth for all I know but what he said in that article is the truth IMO.
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