Comments on: Free Trade Agreements – Do They Really Affect You?

By: Michael S

Michael S — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 03:36:37 +0000

I support Free Trade because I know this is the way to raise the world out of poverty. Sure if Companies have free reign of where to build their factories they will naturally chose locations that they can get cheap labor. However this would only be in the short or at most medium term. Eventually as the labor supply gets smaller wages will rise as Labor is like all other commodities. it is influenced by supply and demand. Capitalists will want the best skilled workers who cost the least and workers want the best paying jobs that provide the best benefits.
Freetrade does not hurt anyone. As it allows for more competition it means that small businesses will survive if they can run efficiently.
As a consumer I like to have choice of what I buy. A long as the product tells me what is contained in the product I want the choice of what to buy. I should have the right to make the decision of what I buy. Currently I have a boycott on US made goods . I am boycotting the US made goods and goods from any country that supports Sanctions on Iran, Russia, Belarus, and Cuba. I boycott any country that supports rebels trying to oust Bashar al-Assad who I am sympathetic to. I also boycott any state that supports Israel. This is why I look for the made in China. I can rest assured that I am buying from a country that does not support Israel if it says Made in China.
The only ones who benefit from not allowing Free trade are corporations. Corporations do not want competition from the outside. Competition especially for unionized manufacturers means that they have to run more efficiently or go out of business. I would rather see all businesses in the USA go out of business and unemployment rate at 100% then to live somewhere with protectionist trade policies that take away my right to consume as i choose. Free trade is demonized by opponents because they believe that it will destroy jobs, and put small businesses out of business. Milton friedman says differently. He even stated there is no evidence of this and he supports a universal freetrade agreement.

By: Valerie Watts

Valerie Watts — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 02:07:54 +0000

TPP, TAFTA and TTIP must be blocked!

By: Emily O'Hare

Emily O'Hare — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 20:52:44 +0000

On a Fast Track to destruction! It will give power and control to corporations who
will be the only ones to profit

By: Alna

Alna — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 15:56:33 +0000

Remember King Midas, who wanted the ability to turn everything into gold at a touch. He thought wealth was everything, until his food and his daughter turned to lifeless gold at his touch. Then he found that wealth supports neither life nor love, and died of starvation, mourning for the loss of his dearest treasure, his little daughter’s love. Beware! this is the path of those who seek passage of the “Free trade Agreement”.

By: Rebecca R. Schedler

Rebecca R. Schedler — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:12:14 +0000

I am appalled that this kind of agreement can be railroaded through before the citizens of this country even know about it and can make up their minds about it. I do take generic cheaper prescr drugs and this would really affect me if this thing is passed. The farmers and workers of this world’s lives are already hard enough without something like this coming along to make it even worse!!!

By: Lorree Gardener Milne

Lorree Gardener Milne — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 19:26:24 +0000

Please concentrate your efforts on Fair Trade for people and abandon the lure by mega corporations to advance Free Trade, which is neither free nor fair.

By: Gary Lessard

Gary Lessard — Thu, 17 Oct 2013 21:47:43 +0000

Gary Lessard
oppose Fast Track and want your interests considered in a public debate.