Free & Fair Trade

By |2020-06-24T17:09:51-04:00May 1st, 2017|Categories: Society|Tags: , , |

Free trade and the global movement of goods and services have been under political attack from the left for quite a while.  Now these ‘socialists’ have been joined by America-Firsters and other ‘My Country, Everyone Else Be Damned’ groups on the Right.  These people, who agree on little else, sing from the same hymn book on free trade and the song they sing most often is the one about the flight of manufacturing jobs  from Frank in Toledo to Pedro in Mexico City or Pho Bang in Vietnam.  This refrain, conjuring up as it does an image [...]