Posted under Free Trade & Globalism & Korea Trade Deal
Ralph Nader has been talking up a libertarian and progressive alliance against corporatism recently. He and Ron Paul were on Freedom Watch with Judge Napolitano to discuss it. They touched on many things, but in keeping with our recent focus on the Korea – US FTA I have chosen to highlight what both men had to say about NAFTA and the WTO.
Paul said:
Paul added that he agreed with Nader on a host of issues, such as cutting the US military’s budget, ending undeclared US wars overseas, restoring civil liberties and civil rights by dumping from the Patriot Act, and withdrawing from the NAFTA and World Trade Organization agreements.
Nader called NAFTA and the WTO “sovereignty shredding and job destroying” (about min 5 of the video). I don’t normally associate liberals with concerns about sovereignty (although Nader is not your typical modern liberal) so that Nader would cite sovereignty concerns speaks to the power of that issue.
Thaddeus on 23 Jan 2011 at 11:32 pm #
Did I miss it, or does this post lack a link to the video in question? I couldn’t locate the hyperlink in the text.
RedPhillips on 24 Jan 2011 at 3:19 am #
Sorry. You are correct. Here is the link.
http://www.independentpoliticalreport.com/2011/01/ralph-nader-and-ron-paul-on-freedom-watch-alliance-against-corporatism/