The Economist and Paul Samuelson question Free Trade
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Originally posted by Spanky
Ty seemed to be implying that (and hence the hypos of sixty percent of the US population being negatively effected by free trade and the discussion of the massive negative impact of free trade on wage earners) 1) I was promoting lots of liberalization of trade policy, that such changes in policy was going to have a massive negative impact on the US citizenry and I didn't seem to care about the massive negative impact the policies I was promoting were going to create 2) that there was a lot of liberalization that could and would be affirmatively done by the US government in the future and that liberalization would have a lot of negative effects on the US citizenry that the government should deal with.
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I don't think I implied (1) or (2). Maybe you should respond to what I actually say instead of what you fear I may be implying.
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