Its so refreshing to see so many people finally getting it. Thank you thank you thank you, it was a long hard slog (to borrow a phrase) and requireed lots of repetition.

Right, so there is no such thing as free trade as it was sold to us, just like there is no such thing as Permanent Tax Cuts!!!

As long as you have govts and borders you have distortions in trade. What we had is wholesale ignorance run amok. There is a truth in the mantra that trade will better our lives. The anti-G movement was never about stopping trade, or even the adjustments that might have to be made as we bring the world into a bigger market. What we saw was a freedom of capital within a restricted labor market without any means of addressing inherent inequialities. Race to the bottom. Though nobody seemed to care a decade ago.

If a tree falls in China and no Americans are there to hear it does it still make a sound?

How was it ever considered "good" to exploit certain kinds of labor that we have had the good sense to ban here. Why is a child working in a sweatshop in LA any more repulsive than one working in asia. Doesnt make sense if you ask me. I dont care if it DOES mean cheap goods, slavery meant cheap goods as well. We had the good sense to see the problem with that. We never said, oh well, but I like cheap food, its too bad about those black people.

For years we were complicit as long as we still had jobs, cheap goods and we never had to see the people making them. We've lost one of those things and now we care. 50 inch plasma tvs could cost a penny but alot of good that will do you if you don't have a job.

Classic NotMeism at work, well fast forward to... now, and its you too. welcome to the future.