### trade:

Free trade
* allows U.S. firms to enter into crucial partnerships with foreign firms.
* appears to produce global economic prosperity.
* bad idea, because it can lead to lower wages and people losing their jobs.
* benefits the poorer classes.
* brings greater political and personal freedom.
* can be a major catalyst for real cost reduction.
* causes change and boosts economic growth.
* consumer issue.
* cornerstone of liberal democracy.
* creates a scenario of lost jobs in the manufacturing private sector
  - world community of individuals working in harmony
  - wealth
* enables an economy to be more efficient and productive.
* encourages poor forestry practices as international companies exploit our forests.
* enhances common American values by promoting democracy and freedom.
* exists only where there are no barriers to voluntary exchange.
* generates economic growth.
* growing phenomenon, serving to stimulate new services.
* has nothing to do with the world's poor.
* heavy burden on family lifestyles.
* helps to maintain our cost of living.
* implies economic competition, including competition in labor markets.
* increases domestic competition, which in turn spurs innovation
* increases the common good and reduces the role of government
  - risk of occupational illness and diseases via imported foods and travel
  - size of markets
* is about coercion
  - absolutely basic to human nature and human beings
  - also about freedom
  - an economic concept with theological roots
  - based upon competition
  - essential to the U.S. manufacturing sector
* is good for consumers, business, and American workers
  - our economy because it is good for the American people
  - like an insurance policy that pools the risk among many individuals
  - more important than trade deficits
  - part of free enterprise
  - socialistic just as Orwellian freedom is slavery
  - state power
  - supposed to bring a higher standard of living to all countries
* is the absence of barriers to international trade
  - best hope for the world's poor
  - exchange of goods at their free market price, in the absence of distortions
  - freedom to exploit
  - only philosophy compatible with international peace and prosperity
  - philosophy of nations on the way down
  - road to democratic change
  - social application of the right to property
  - touted as a panacea for the solution of the world s problems
  - trade carried on in the absence of any barriers
  - utopian because it runs counter to the way humans have always behaved
  - voluntary trade
  - what happens between Florida and Georgia
* leads to open borders.
* lowers the environmental standards of local communities.
* means compulsory business on the terms of the strong and powerful
  - increased exploitation of women
  - no barriers to imports or exports between nations
  - opportunity, hope and progress
  - tearing down tariff barriers
* means that consumers can choose what they purchase and from where they purchasde it
  - countries that produce goods for the least amount of money succeed
* means the cost of production and a reasonable profit
  - free flow of everything - including knowledge
  - trade without interference from governmental or quasi-governmental agencies
* necessary component in catalyzing economic growth.
* one-way street to greater prosperity for all.
* positive sum game, that benefits all participants.
* powerful tool for stimulating growth and reducing poverty.
* promotes consumption
  - the creation of wealth, jobs, and freedom
* provides consumers with better goods at lower prices.
* relies upon good faith if it is to be effective in reducing overall prices.
* return on decades of American investment.
* serves common American interests by reducing poverty abroad.
* step in the process of the destruction of local sovereignty.
* strengthens the rule of law.
* very old concept, dating back to the beginnings of capitalist economic theory.
* wants all workers to be interchangeable.
* win-win policy.