[CTC] Wal-Mart, CEOs Push for Passage of Korea FTA

[Citizens Trade Campaign]

Please have a look at this article on Huffington Post, and pass it along to
others:

Our values as a society should be explicitly expressed in trade agreements.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stan-sorscher/level-the-playing-field-i_b_6462
34.html
> Our focus on reducing tariffs is misguided. We should use non-economic
> conditions to promote prosperity at home and abroad.

Stan Sorscher




Other articles:

Why has our middle class eroded, and what principles will get us back on
track?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stan-sorscher/invest-in-americas-future_b_6201
28.html
> ³Making business succeed² has become a new code word, masking decisions that
> leave workers and communities behind.
> 
> 
Economists study ³market failure.² We should consider a new mechanism for
market failure, group-think, in addition to the standard mechanisms.
Group-think played a major role in the housing and financial crisis,
overlapping with the other standard mechanisms of market failure.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stan-sorscher/group-think-caused-the-ma_b_6048
10.html
> ³It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends
> upon his not understanding it!"


Our trade policy is directly connected to the erosion of the middle class.
We will need a new trade policy if we expect to make any progress in
restoring shared prosperity.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stan-sorscher/why-is-free-trade-convent_b_5944
88.html
> For some reason, when we design rules for global commerce, we choose free
> trade policies that place highest priority on investor rights, and push the
> interests of civil society into the shadows. 

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