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Free Trade Fact of the Day
Posted By Conn Carroll On June 25, 2008 @ 12:19 pm In American Leadership | 6 Comments
Great new video from reason.tv [1]out today defending NAFTA by making the argument that the threat to American jobs from trade is no different than the threat from better technology. Host Drew Carey quips:”How are we supposed to compete against something that doesn’t get paid, doesn’t get health insurance, and never goes on breaks? No job is safe from the robot threat!”
Reason’s editors add [2]: “Like technology, trade gives us more good stuff than bad—yet Americans are likely to cheer technology and fear trade. No doubt TV talkers and White House wannabes will keep stoking our fears of foreigners until voters and viewers stop buying it—or until robots snag their jobs, too.”
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[1] reason.tv : http://reason.tv/video/show/451.html
[2] add: http://reason.com/blog/show/127173.html
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