A Warning To All Federally Elected Officials: End Free Trade Now, Stop Giving Away What Middle Class America Worked So Hard For

By: Wednesday August 4, 2010 10:30 am

From the Office of the United States Trade Representative, Executive Office of the President, the United States of America has Free Trade Agreements with the following countries:

The United States has signed free trade agreements with Colombia, Korea, and Panama, but Congress must enact legislation to approve and implement each individual agreement in order for them to go into effect.

The United States is also in negotiations of a regional, Asia-Pacific trade agreement, known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement with the objective of shaping a high-standard, broad-based regional pact.

No Recovery, No Jobs, Part Three

By: Thursday April 29, 2010 6:18 am

Continuing my series about what caused our economic collapse, when it actually began, and why the “Recovery” will remain a jobless recovery until we reverse the effects of Free Trade and the outsourcing of jobs by America companies, allow me to present Exhibit A: Apple, Inc.

We should even tariff countries because they don’t tariff

By: Tuesday December 2, 2008 4:29 am

Tariffs are the method we use to get compensation from countries that produce product without paying their own bills, not only should we tariff those countries but also countries that allow the product imported without imposing a tariff

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