Protectionism: Past and Future

[dcsmart]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=114x60575

i should have posted this on the labor forum. This article asks an important question: is international worker solidarity a real option for US labor? Can a renegotiated NAFTA provide better worker security and fairness? See links within the article above.

We cannot lose good paying manufacturing jobs in this country, but should we support a "new protectionism."

[jwirr]

1. Globalism does not define business the way it used to be defined.

We used to have global trade with protections for the nations rights to monitor trade in regard to its own wellbeing. Today globalization laws such as NAFTA have ended the nations rights in favor of businesses doing exactly what they want in the world. So far they have outsourced our jobs, polluted other countries, bankrupted the world and put a great deal of the developing world's people into near slave labor jobs. I do not think a little protectionism is a bad thing.