We attended a “Fair Trade Party” at Beth and Al Mancuso’s place in Cleveland. \u00a0 They were selling fair trade goods and food, coffee, tea, etc… from Third World countries. \u00a0 The intent is to help the poor \u00a0in, say, Latin America, South America, Africa… get a “fair” price for their crops, their art, their clothes… \u00a0I recently told the Wheeling Intelligencer newspaper that \u00a0our administration would highly favor this type of fair trade imports and would stridently \u00a0discourage free trade that considerably advantages, say: corporate farms in America that can grow at such volume and ship cheaply enough that the farm can actually undercut subsistence farmers in Venezuala trying to sell to their local markets up the street. \u00a0 This is not being “American strong,” this is an absolute social justice travesty. \u00a0 Note: \u00a0 One of the people at the the Mancuso’s Fair Trade Party had a sweatshirt on with a picture of a Native American and the words: \u00a0 “Homeland Security: Fighting Terrorism \u00a0Since 1492.” \u00a0 How apt. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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