Buchanan, sole voice against free trade?

Carl Remick cremick at rlmnet.com
Tue Mar 2 12:40:51 PST 1999


Re: "A hell of a lot of progressive activists in third world country oppose even negotiated labor standards precisely because they suspect they will largely be used not for equity purposes, but merely as a tool by the US government to hurt workers historically excluded from employment globally."

Nathan, do I construe your stance here correctly -- as opposing harmonization of labor (and environmental?) laws on the grounds that this could be used as a tool "to hurt workers historically excluded from employment globally"?

If so, this sounds like the same pro-free-trade sophistry the Clinton crowd has been dispensing right along.

Carl Remick



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