Well, I did. I said that Senate Democrats were just posing when they voted down the “Fast Track” trade bill, and now, a mere month later, I’ve been proven right. Well, if you wait long enough, almost any prediction will come true, so, by that standard, this one was almost instantaneous.
As my last post indicated, I don’t have much sympathy for anti-trade folks in the U.S. I have more sympathy for workers in other countries, who sometimes get hit with a deluge of subsidized U.S. competition. It’s a fact that neo-liberal notions of omni-beneficial rising tides don’t quite work out the way they’re supposed to, but going back to 1970 seems like less and less of an option these days, in part because the median household income was about $5,000 lower than today. I grant you, a $5,000 raise over 45 years is pretty goddamn shabby, but if today’s kids had to put up with 1970s technology, they’d go insane. Everything was crap back then, except the music. So light up a doobie (because, in some states, it’s legal!), and chill.
