{"id":38,"date":"2007-11-15T14:16:44","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T20:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/2007\/11\/15\/where-have-all-the-free-traders-gone\/"},"modified":"2007-11-15T16:57:37","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T22:57:37","slug":"where-have-all-the-free-traders-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/2007\/11\/15\/where-have-all-the-free-traders-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Where have all the free-traders gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB119144942897748150.html\" target=\"_blank\">early October WSJ poll<\/a>, 59% of Republican voters think that foreign trade is bad for the economy.  These voters agreed with the statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Foreign trade has been bad for the U.S. economy, because imports from abroad have reduced demand for American-made goods, cost jobs here at home, and produced potentially unsafe products.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It seems that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/20254745\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent recalls<\/a> from China have contributed to anti-trade sentiment.  But, traditional misconceptions about trade seem to be at the root of protectionism.  One excerpt from the WSJ article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Julie Kowal, 40 years old, who works in a medical lab and is raising five children in Omaha, Neb., said she worries that Midwestern producers face obstacles selling beef and autos abroad. &#8220;We give a lot more than we get,&#8221; she said. &#8220;There&#8217;s got to be a point where we say, &#8216;Wait a minute.'&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This does not bode well for the likelihood that the next president, whether Republican or Democrat, will make progress towards reducing barriers to trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an early October WSJ poll, 59% of Republican voters think that foreign trade is bad for the economy. These voters agreed with the statement: &#8220;Foreign trade has been bad for the U.S. economy, because imports from abroad have reduced demand for American-made goods, cost jobs here at home, and produced potentially unsafe products.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-science","category-trade"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/aspiringeconomist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}