Encouraging Words From Obama on Free Trade Disaster

Indeed, to hear words on these critical economic matters by Barack Obama is a positive. Free trade policies pursued by the US government over the last two decades have devastated the American workforce and manufacturing sector. This has resulted in a serious decline in the standard of living and quality of life for many. Families, communities, and society have suffered hardship and noteworthy tragic impacts. If elected, Obama faces an enormous economic challenge to reverse the negatives of this longterm free trade policy approach without causing additional effects that make things even worse. Economic and policy scholars have plans and ideas out there that need to be heard, debated, and considered before the American economy starts to bellyup further.

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