How Free Trade Hurts

By Byron Dorgan and Sherrod Brown

Saturday, December 23, 2006; Page A21

Fewer and fewer Americans support our government's trade policy. They see a shrinking middle class, lost jobs and exploding trade deficits.

Yet supporters of free trade continue to push for more of the same -- more job-killing trade agreements, greater tax breaks for large corporations that export jobs and larger government incentives for outsourcing.