It’s high time that Americans stood up and listened to political leaders who willingly ask us to fight, without willingly fighting for us in return. Not since the Robber Barons built their North American empires, have issues of labor been so blatantly in favor of the wealthy few, and so wildly distorted by some politicians in power.

 As highlighted in a New York Times Op-Ed, manufacturers of luxury goods have caught on to the fact that government enforcement of trade laws has more slack than a wind whipped prairie telephone line, but out here on the prairie, keeping the phones working is only one of the many challenges we face. Sorting truth from fiction has become another daunting task. Political leaders would do well to listen to the buzz on the line, because some of that buzz is traveling along barbed wire fence telephone lines. Static may hide the truth, but only until the barbs begin to bite.

Right now the barbed wire fence phone lines are telling us that cheap labor drives corporate profit, and just like Asian Coolies provided cheap labor for rail lines and Robber Barons, a new breed of Robber Baron exists to manipulate markets and steal opportunity from Americans at the cost of developing nations whose latest development is merely the right to work long hours for little pay.

Some Coolies aren’t even Asian any more, living in places like Mexico, Peru, and Columbia.

In the meantime, check those Gucci handbags for Asian fingerprints. There’s a chance the Made in Italy label itself, as well as every thing underneath, was created by a Free Trade Coolie.

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