And now for Gore?

[Brad De Long]

>Re Brad De Long's:  "There was a time when opening up the U.S. market to
>imports from poor
>countries--so that Bengali peasants could move from very, very low-paid
>farmworker jobs to low-paid textile-operative jos--was a left-wing cause
>in
>America.   That left was a lot more attractive from the standpoint of
>promoting human
>happiness than this pseudo-Pat-Buchanan left is turning out to be..."
>
>That dear, departed left was the left that thought there was some chance
>of striving for parity between the labor/environmental laws of the
>United States and those of LDCs/NICs.  NAFTA has proved those beliefs
>illusory.
>
>Carl Remick

So now the left tries to keep the developing economies of the world as poor
as possible--lest they pollute?

Brad DeLong