The final idiocy is a lack of Distance Tariffs (see this writer's article on same) which mean that products travelling ten thousand miles to market in fossil-fuel vehicles compete on a level with products which travel only fifty miles. In other words, there is no penalty, offset, or pollution tariff for destroying the earth with "free trade" -- a regime which now rewards the long distance, fossil-fuel, earth-destroying, product. This is diabolical irresponsibility.
Will all our "freedom-loving" politicians grant you the freedom from a fascist trade regime, from a fascist monetary and credit regime, and from a privatized, capital-run, "independent" regime world in which democracy has no say? It remains to be seen if they can escape from the Smoot-Hawley propaganda and see that we can escape to freedom from the current corporate fascism which is enveloping every aspect of our lives.
Clearly, counter-cyclical trade policy and true trade freedom (meaning the freedom to trade or not to trade, or to simply set tariffs according to domestic needs) is an essential first step. Otherwise, the synchronized, lock step, trade regime will ruin us for sure and completely remove diversity, cultural freedom, and local responsibility from our world.
Kent Welton,
OligarchyUSA.com
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