Ranks of working poor increasing

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7. This is just proof that Free Trade is working.

Free Trade as embodied in NAFTA and GATT creates a globalized labor market. In such a market the price of labor in "developed" nations must necessarily collapse towards the level prevailing in the most impoverished nations. There are two billion people living in absolute poverty in the world - an inexhaustible supply of rightless and essentially free labor! It's truly a capitalist paradise and there are more exploitable bodies entering the world all the time. So, if there is a marked increase in the numbers of working poor people in the US that just means the main Reagan-Bush-Clinton-Obama economic prescription (free trade, and lots of it) is doing its job. Steady as she goes, Captain! Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement off the port bow. Make ready the boarding and signing party.
We should feel fortunate and grateful. It's a very exciting time to be alive!