Article: Free Trade: 'call a spade a spade.'.

We should rename "free trade" because it isn't free and it isn't fair. Since it's trade that's regulated in favor of multinational special interest groups, why don't we call it for what it is: How about "rigged market trade" or "turn your back on your fellow countrymen trade" or "throw American workers out on the street trade."

Why are we so afraid to call a spade a spade? There are 36,000 fewer U.S. factories than there were eight years ago. One in five manufacturing jobs has been lost in the last 10 years, and counting. If we don't stem the tide of multinationalism through trade law reform, then between 42 million and 56 million U.S. jobs could be moved ...

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