Financial Times Says Fair Traders Are Beginning to Win on Policy

By David Sirota

Created 02/05/2009 - 7:16pm

Coming from the Financial Times - the paper of record for Big Money - this story [1] is really an incredible sign that the progressive fair trade movement is gaining real ground and winning the broader political debate:

The most striking thing about the debate within Washington is how long the measures took to get noticed – and how little they are perceived as a protectionist act...The dwindling band of free-trade Democrats on Capitol Hill has been almost completely silent...

Looking at the political environment and Mr Obama’s own journey to the White House, perhaps that is not surprising. Along with his well-known criticisms of the effect on jobs and wages of deals such as Nafta, Mr Obama’s campaign singled out Buy American as a symbol of economic patriotism.