Trade is not a problem

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Sunday April 27, 2008 · 10:53 AM PDT

2008/04/27 · 10:53

As I listen to both democrats argue about trade with China and NAFTA, I often wonder do they really understand what the "problem" is all about. Today the New Times Editorial Is Trade the Problem? presents cogent arguments that trade is not what is causing low wages and unemployment.
See below the fold.

The editorial argues the true causes are

advances in technology,
the decline of trade unions, and
mushrooming executive pay.

The solution lies in many areas including:

providing better education for all people including members of the workforce and future members of the workforce;

reducing executive pay in companies while increasing worker pay thus spreading income to those who will consume more;

provide for more cost effective infrastructure including better transportation, power, schools, colleges, and housing; and

providing free health care for all so that many of the problems that plague workers are solved in a cost effective way for all.

The news be it PBS, cable, regular TV, newspapers and magazines provides almost no information on these issues. The mainstream media prefers hurricanes, missing white girls, sex scandals and whether or not Billy goat Clinton is wagging his finger. No one discusses the "budget" and what we should be spending. How many people know the census may be completely screwed up in two years and that may very well give one party and advantage over the other. How many people realize that restoring tropical rain forests may do more to help global warming than carbon caps and using less energy? How many realize that ethanol has raised food prices to the point where people are starving? Further ethanol may increase as opposed to decrease global warming.

These issues and others need to be in out news magazines. These are the questions that need to be asked of the candidates and their surrogates.

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