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Bait & Switch
Freely trading lies for votes

By Allan Uthman

Here’s New York Times columnist and pillar of mediocrity, David Brooks, at his gag-inducing best on the issue of free trade:

“Economists differ over how much outsourcing will change the American job market in the future, but there is little evidence that trade has been a major cause of job loss or even wage stagnation so far.”

How’s this for evidence, Brooks: There were factories; now they’re gone. The people who worked in them lost their jobs; many were screwed out of their pensions. Now some of them have found inferior work in the service sector, for less money and paltry benefits, if any. None of this is refutable. Surely you have a fact sheet from the Cato Institute to support your claims, but that doesn’t change the fact that you are lying.

Brooks yawned out this claptrap while complaining about a speech Barack Obama gave in Pennsylvania on the economy and the working class. Obama’s focus on free trade deals rankled the centrist manchild, who, like virtually everyone else at The New York Times and, for that matter, every other major news outlet in the country, has a boner for economic globalization.

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