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Oh gosh, scary pictures. Well that proves everything!...

The psychotic bleats in ignorance again. China is no longer Communist, and we had a huge boom for many years after GATT and NAFTA passed. What, were you sleeping? Explain to the board how allowing slave made goods manufactured with zero environmental or worker safety protections does not say ...

Actually, no. On balance, free trade is still a positive. The Chinese are no longer manipulating their currency, but even when they arguably did, they were simply subsidizing goods for Americans. How is that bad? And the US boomed after GATT and NAFTA took effect, during this manipulation....

...rich clem, for a f@cking republican idiot who doesn't even know what a dollar is, you sure do work your c@cksucker about the illion 'dollar' economy!...stfu.....

Can you provide something to back up this claim, that the intent of NAFTA was to provide 3rd world countries "preferential consideration" (whatever that is) in the marketplace?...

Are you claiming that NAFTA was designed to promote free trade? Explain for us then, the elements of free trade that require giving 3rd world countries preferential consideration in the marketplace, which was the basis and intent of NAFTA. Go on, we'll wait....

Booms are a man eating his own leg, dummy. Busts are when he looks down and sees the folly. Free Trade has created a communist juggernaut in Asia and unemplyment at home. Explain to the board how allowing slave made goods manufactured with zero environmental or worker safety protections does not ...

Ladies and gentlemen, here is a fellow who posts under the screen name, RichClem. He has been accused of many things: Being a paid shill, being a deranged stalker, being a hypocrite (They had him there), being a mediocre intellect - one nefarious fellow even planted rumorsthat the man spent his off ...

With countries like china manipulating their currencies, our ever expanding trade deficit, and the value of our dollar and its reserve status which taxes exports and subsidizes imports, free trade hurts the American worker, regardless of how Wall Street ledgers read. If you don't believe me, ask Mi...

Are you claiming that Free Trade does not promote prosperity? Almost all economists agree on that, and GATT and NAFTA were big contributors to the boom when Clinton was in office....