Arguments against free trade, led by labor unions, have lost their impact in the media as the economy booms and employment remains high. But a unique new alliance threatens to change all that. This strange new alliance is expected to stage major demonstrations at the meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle the end of November. This is what makes the aforementioned alliance so laughable. While unions are working with anti-industry groups to fight free trade, those same groups are in the process of denying employment to Americans in every walk of life.
Big cities fare no better.
EPA apparently defines justice as denying minorities the jobs those factories would have provided. Perhaps union members, whose numbers continue to shrink as a percentage of the work force, will be discussing these issues with their new comrades as they stroll the picket lines in Seattle. We could cite more. It would seem that the issues of those who call themselves environmentalists trump all others simply because they rely on fear rather than a slavish adherence to truth. In a land not far away, in a time not long ago, a man nearly enslaved a continent with such techniques while the world's politicians acquiesced.