Friday, February 6, 2009
We Need Sincere Free Trade
Johan Norberg is a Swedish freelance writer. He is a liberal and has written many books on politics and issues of the world. He has a blog where he presents and explains his arguments for classical liberalism, free markets and globalization. Norberg's article explains the cruelty of Sweden's import barriers on developing countries. His Swedish background and passion for free trade builds his credibility, making his argument more convincing. Because Norberg is very passionate about what he writes about his article appeals to pathos. For example, he sates, "Eu protectionism deprives developing countries of nearly US$700-billion in export income each year. His wording and examples cause the reader to feel sympathy for developing countries.
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That's interesting that he has a Swedish background because he attacks their policies. I thought he used a lot of drastic (but not uncalled for) examples to make his point and trying to get our sympathy as you said.
First of all we need to define what Free Trade is and what it should be.
Today, Free Trade is not trade as historically defined and practiced. Today it is based on moving production from place to place for the sake of cheaper labor. Free Trade can only be compared to the Slave Trade.
It has "commoditized" workers and put them on a world trading block to compete with one another for the same jobs down to the lowest levels of wage slave and even child labor.
Only the USA gave their manufacturing away like this and of course a Trade Deficit will follow this process continously. The definition of imports has to be challenged too since much of the products made abroad were once made in the USA.
Our most popular ezine article is Lend Lease was real Free Trade and not chop liver as in the Globalist World. President Roosevelt said he was not going to let the dollar sign stand in his way and ramped up the greatest industrial might in history by shipping goods to the allies without worrying about how they were going to pay for them.
See http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Ray_Tapajna
http://tapsearch.com/flatworld and a mobile user friendly summary of articles related to Globalization and Free Trade at http://tapsearchnewsmobile.filetap.com
And actually, the Globalization on money came first before the Globalization of goods and workers.
See http://www.bizarrepolitics.com/globalization-of-money-products
Now all economies based on making money on money instead of making things are burning out.
Woah, this is impressive, we have somebody that is not in our class to comment on a blog post. We must be famous now. Also I did not really think he appealed to pathos until you made that statement, thank you Jordan.
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