Stumbling and Mumbling makes the ‘Roll. There’ve been some excellent posts there lately. I liked this, this, this and this. I believe in free trade as much the next bug-eyed ‘Blogging loon; I just think that globalization’s boosters aren’t honest about its inevitable downside or the requirement that, for the full benefits to be spread as widely as possible, free movement of goods must be matched by the free movement of people. A lot of Right-wingers are a lot less enthusiastic about the latter than they are about the former for some strange reason.
27Apr05 — 1
What really annoys me about the social right wingers is that they also seem to be incapable of noting that the free movement of goods and capital is, in many ways, a substitute for the free movement of people.
I agree that in a perfect world all would be free.
But spreading the wealth around (and creating more) by free trade should mean fewer desititute people clamouring to get into the richer countries.