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January 24, 2006

Ford Cuts: How The Media Misses The Story

    Each paper posed the cuts as a result of the need to be competitive in the global economy. Not a single one of the newspapers--and I'll venture a guess that the same will be true of the rest of the MSM--raised the idea that the cuts have become because of the failure of U.S. trade policy, specifically so-called "free trade" and the success of a policy that encourages deunionization and, by extension, the shredding of decent living standards here and abroad.

Originally posted by JT from Daily Blog, ReBlogged by cat on Jan 24, 2006 at 04:14 PM