Ralph Nader - The Negative Effects of "Free" Trade

Ralph Nader discusses how free trade agreements negatively affect the world.

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[rumpelstillskin65]

GO NADER 2008

[Beadbud5000]

Your lecturer is wrong. Flat out wrong. Check the stats! The democrats fucked themselves.

[heavym3tal]

God Nader is such an ignorant douche-fag! Try studying history next time, before you open your mouth. BTW the Chevy Corvair is safe at any speed!

[thebenjithompson]

BOGUS. Sounds like experimental public policy theory rather than true economic law. Trade creates wealth!!

[superlucci]

@Threequalseven We do not live even close to a free market economy. You dont even know what a free market is.

The FREE in Free market means FREE from government intervention, and the closest thing we had to that was the 19th century when government intervention was low

[superlucci]

@Threequalseven "And free trade is indeed the ONLY way to create monopolies in a market economy."

Free trade by its own definition cannot create monopolies. There is nothing stopping anybody from competing against a big business. Competition lowers prices.

[superlucci]

@Threequalseven "The only way you can have a free trade society is if the people (you and me) are stripped of all our basic human rights."

That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.

"No minimum wage, no labor laws, no environmental standards whatsoever."

Min wage, labor laws are not human rights. There is a case for 3rd party effects.

" Free trade means that companies are free to do whatever they want, because you are completely powerless."

Wrong. You can choose to work there or not.

[JIdrummer]

@capt251978

Aye. Everything you've said there, I agree with. Also peculiar that you'd comment on something I said over two years ago ;)

[capt251978]

@JIdrummer The age of debate is long dead. This day and age, none of the major candiates are so ridgedly stuck to their idealogical stance that even when they hear something they know to be true, if it is contrary to their beliefs....... they will not bend. And the sad truth is that the American people are the same.

[Threequalseven]

Want proof that free-market economies don't work? Easy! Just look around you. The vast majority of people on this planet live under a free-market capitalist system. And yet, the vast majority of people on this planet are living IN POVERTY!

[Threequalseven]

@SuperSelfreliance: The only way you can have a free trade society is if the people (you and me) are stripped of all our basic human rights. No minimum wage, no labor laws, no environmental standards whatsoever. Free trade means that companies are free to do whatever they want, because you are completely powerless. And free trade is indeed the ONLY way to create monopolies in a market economy. What's sad is that people like you are the authors and cheerleaders for your own children's enslavement

[MrHamncheez]

NADER IS A RACIST. He thinks a rich, fat, american is more deserving of a job than a mexican, simply because of the fact that they were born south of a line in the arizona sand.