| Free Trade / Offshoring I am not an advocate of Laissez Faire capitalism. Neither am I a proponent of free trade. I believe government intervention is necessary to protect our jobs and people especially given that our markets are increasingly global. As further detailed in other posts, I am not an advocate of Laissez Faire ... 1 day ago · TDAWG's Perspective · perspective.tdawgsblog.com by TDawg () |
| Your Tax Dollars At Work By now, most people will have heard about the spectacular hostage rescue operation in Colombia. What most people will not hear about is how much the profificianty of the Colombian military in its ongoing, highly successful campaign to crush the narco-terrorist (and ally of Venezuala) organization FA ... 1 day ago · Kinshasa On The Potomac · kotp.blogspot.com by (Jeff)  4 references |
| Colombian derring do (Plus, John McCain's ) The Miami Herald has the update on former FARC hostage Ingrid Betancourt's reunion with her family, after the Colombian government puts one over on the FARC guerrillas and frees several people who were held by them for more than five years, including the former presidential candidate, Betancourt, an ... 1 day ago · Reidblog [The Reid Report ... · blog.reidreport.com by JReid () 8 references |
| Show me the money Merrill Lynch and Capgemini just released their 12th annual World Wealth Report, and the results are stunning. The wealth of the ultra-rich (those with assets of $30 million or more) grew 14.5 % between 2006 and 2007. The big surprise is how the geographical distribution of the rich is rapidly chang ... 1 day ago · 25 centÃmetros de neve · 25centimetrosdeneve.blogspot.com by zero () 14 references |
| Alden: Ramifications of Refugee Day - Somali refugees replace illegal hispanics By Diane Alden Interestingly, this year’s Refugee Day may have had an extra twist lurking in the background beyond accruing diversity points. Refugees are now seen by some businesses as a new source of cheap labor. For example, colorful legal Somalis have replaced illegal immigrants (mostly Hispanic ... 1 day ago · Stiff Right Jab · stiffrightjab.com by Steve Farrell 1 reference |
| Swanson: How Long Does a Free-Trade Agreement Need to Be? By Tim Swanson, Mises.org Only in a world micromanaged by civil servants can the simplest of principles be spliced and diced into hundreds of pages and dozens of chapters. That is the volume of just one multilateral trade agreement: NAFTA. Various proponents of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) posit tha ... 1 day ago · Stiff Right Jab · stiffrightjab.com by Steve Farrell 1 reference |
| Flip-Flopping On Trade--The Fun Continues Here's Barack Obama's campaign today: As presumptive Republican nominee McCain headed to Latin America today after an event in Indianapolis, the Obama camp hosted a conference call to criticize him for what it called failed trade policies. On the call, Indiana House Majority Leader Russ Stilwell and ... 2 days ago · Redstate - Conservative ... · redstate.com by (Redstate Network) 339 references |
| McCain Calls For Hemispheric Free Trade Agreement in Colombia Sen. John McCain continued his trip to Colombia on Wednesday and called for a "Hemispheric" Free Trade Agreement. McCain has been drawing the distinction between himself and Barack Obama on the issue of Free Trade during his trip, which will also take him to Mexico. John McCain said he would support ... 2 days ago · Freedom's Lighthouse · freedomslighthouse.com by BrianinMO () 7 references |
