Income disparities have widened to such a degree that in 1999, the richest one percent of the population is projected to receive as much after-tax income as the bottom 38 percent combined. Our elite's latest enthusiasm is for something called the World Trade Organization. No one is quite sure what this is. It is meant to facilitate free trade. Its decisions are arrived at in secret and it hands down rulings that are as incontrovertible as Mosaic Law.
Nations can no longer decide for themselves their health, safety and environmental standards.
They can no longer decide what kind of trade agreements they have and with whom. If they fail to do so, they are to be punished. Recently, the United States got into one of its regular trade wrangles with the European Union. The issue was bananas. For decades European countries had imported bananas from their former Caribbean colonies.