He doesn't appear to take into account that we, in the United States, have a higher standard of living then anywhere else, or that workers in this country are the safest anywhere. Though he probably thinks it was luck that put us here, it was in fact a free market with less government intervention than anywhere else in the world. The fact is that progress has always served humanity. Conditions have never taken a step back because of new technologies or market forces. The standard of living has only improved in free markets.
R eporting on world trade talks discusses everything, it seems, except world trade.
Any system that places such enormous power in the hands of a few non-elected arbitrators is ripe for abuse. Recent hisory should provide a sobering reminder of what happens when a judiciary is exempted from political oversight. Kauffman gets it wrong by stating that nonviolent protests in Seattle are rooted in the anti-nuclear protests of the 1970s. Anorexia is a serious disease. All rights reserved.