Ian Fletcher: Why Isn't the US Economy Recovering?

'Cause Obama is stoopid! That's why. Yes, we know that. But stated more eloquently, here is Ian Fletcher, author of Free Trade Doesn't Work.


The Australian economy is only saved from the same fate by our minerals exports, but that is sucking the life out of our manufacturing industry through the increased value of our dollar.

And our stoopid leader Julia Gillard announced the potential Trans-Pacific Partnership with: "There is a simple equation at work here: trade equals growth, equals jobs".

File under: the snotty, snobbish, mindless ideology of indiscriminate trade.