The United States Constitution declares free trade between the States with a handful of paragraphs. NAFTA, GATT, and other agreements require VOLUMES to declare what they call "free trade," but which bears the same relationship to true free trade as the crisis-engendering energy market situation in California bore to a true free-market in energy. That is to say, the relationship of the antithetical to the genuine.

You can bet that, whenever "freedom" in some aspect of life can be described only by a shelf of thick books consisting of wispy-thin pages filled with tiny print, you're not getting "freedom" at all, but rather some confidence game with a pleasing name, designed to give advantage to some while hobbling the rest.

I believe in real free trade. Free trade between the States, with almost no interstate tariffs or duties (except those that sneak through the tiny loopholes in Article I, Sections 9 & 10, and the 21st Amendment), helped to create a climate of economic activity and prosperity in the US that has long been the envy of the entire world. What the globalists have force-fed us, on the other hand, is NOT free trade, but rather seems to be a means of negating the self-determination rights of all the signatory nations, in exchange for some allegedly profitable commerce.

Don't ever be scared of true free trade. Be very afraid of (and hostile to!) so-called "free trade" that is neither free, nor fair.