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The new line of the day is... "Don't worry about free trade agreements because marital divorce is worse."
David Brooks,
the NY Times op-ed contributor, is afraid of the push for better trade
policies. The old ones are just fine. Just sign every
document shoved in front of Congress' fact that says "free trade
agreement." Don't read it. Don't criticize it, because if
you do you are a protectionist.
Huckabee and Obama won Iowa yesterday. Brooks says this on the trade issue, when commenting on the caucus results:
Huckabee understands how middle-class anxiety is really lived.
Democrats talk about wages. But real middle-class families have more to
fear economically from divorce than from a free trade pact. A person’s
lifetime prospects will be threatened more by single parenting than by
outsourcing. Huckabee understands that economic well-being is fused
with social and moral well-being, and he talks about the
inter-relationship in a way no other candidate has.
Yes, David. Divorce is worse than a trade agreement.
Serial killers are worse too. So are forest fires and natural
disasters. And death is really bad for a person's "lifetime prospects."
But those issues have nothing to do with trade. And, given
that financial stress is the biggest cause of divorce, how many
divorces have resulted from the outsourcing, low wages, and business
loss caused by trade agreements?
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