The newspaper of the rich right white corporatists puts that bias clearly on display in this partisan evaluation. The distinction between free trade and fair trade is never made. The "Free" trade agreements of Clinton and Bush abdicate the regulatory oversight power of our democracy and cede a free hand to unelected corporate thieves to drive down labor costs and maximize corporate profit. More education for displaced workers is worthless if all the skilled and well-paid jobs have been outsourced and given to immigrant workers with H-1B visas. How much education do you need to flip burgers or drive a taxi? The article give no weight to loss of middle class jobs, nor to the exporting of environmental contamination problems ... More »

This opinion piece has considerable journalistic merit. It points out the dangers that the protectionist positions of Obama will have for the U.S. and world economies. The authors could have added that the Democratic Mayor of New Orleans pleaded with Congress to pass the Free Trade Agreement with Columbia as it would increase the flow of goods through his port to that country by $800 million. The authors accurately point out the fallacies in Obama's arguments about NAFTA.