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Kudos to Mr. William F. Jasper for his "free trade" article ("Your Job May Be Next," March 10th issue), and his response to a letter to the editor in the May 5th issue. The letter writer drags out the same old worn-out mantra we heard when Congress was cramming NAFTA and GATT down our throats. The only problem with the "free trade" argument is that we have now had 10 years to evaluate NAFTA and nine years for GATT.
Karl Marx understood "free trade" better than the "free traders" of today when he said back in 1848: "When you place a free man in competition with a slave you enslave the free man." Sadly, today's "free traders" don't understand what Marx knew and understood very clearly -- or do they?
Let's look at what "free trade" under ...