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Nice, but what's that got to do with anything?
TB — (archived)

If anything, my comment referred to Clinton's personal views, not economic policy.

For the record, I was rooting for Clinton to pass NAFTA. In the long run, free trade is a plus, even if the short-term rebalancing is a problem. We're long past the time where we could get away with paying people upper-middle-class wages to turn a bolt on an assembly line while billions of other people on the planet struggle to make a living on subsistence farms. Post-WWII America was an artificial situation, born of the luxury of being the last Western nation untouched by war, while Europe, Britain, Japan, the Soviets, and the rest of Asia hauled themselves out of the rubble. Competition? What competition? I don't think we want the world to pay that price again for our easy economic conditions.

Incidentally, the EPI is basically the liberal version of the Heritage Foundation. A rule of thumb I've never found an exception to: No organization that labels itself prominently as "non-partisan," ever is.

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