Letters to the Editor
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FREE TRADE - THERE IS A SOLUTION
The real problem with free trade is that the US government does not believe in complete free trade. To have real free trade you would have the same health and safety requirements on good produced outside of America as you do inside America. You would not give most favored nation status to countries that work against freedom, democracy and human rights.
America has become a bottom line country, where profits of global corporations trump everything else - including health, safety and democracy. Why not form a kind of alliance where we only give free trade to countries that do not have significant human rights violations, that do not create contaminated products, that do not abuse workers?
Global trade policy could promote democracy and human rights better than bombs. We should use that leverage, while we still have it.