The Economist... pro-free trade, pro-gay rights... Democrats take note

This is why the Economist is the best magazine out there... two cover stories back to back making sense on the outsourcing issue and gay marriage, and taking the right position on both issues. This is why Clinton read this magazine weekly and thought a lot about its proposals... it's basically on the money:

Economist- The case for gay marriage
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displaystory.cfm?Story_ID=2459758

Economist- Pro outsourcing article
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2442040

I'm all for equal rights, but I ain't crazy about outsourcing.

I guess they figured that homosexuality has no NEGATIVE impact on the corporate bottom line. Bastards.

I subscribed to The Economist for three years. While I would agree that it provides the best comprehensive news reports about world politics and business and appreciate the fact that it's a British conservative publication, and therefore not hung up on regulating people's personal behavior, its constant promotion of "free" trade for whatever ails you borders on fanaticism.

Whenever a country had any kind of problem, The Economist would say that it needed more "free" trade. When reading Economist articles, I found my self wondering how they were going to fit the "these people need more free trade" mantra into it this time.

I let my subscription lapse when I had some financial difficulties, but the last issue I got in the mail had a special section on "free" trade. It was all about how "free" trade was going to bring about something close to utopia IF governments were democratic and IF rich countries didn't strip away their own industrial bases and IF this and IF that and IF the other thing. In other words, they so much as admitted that "free" trade was not a humane system under current conditions.

By the way, what kind of person thinks that the two greatest things in the world are "free" trade and gay rights? A Log Cabin Republican?

dramatically. Pre-90s it was probably the smartest magazine out there. After the change in ownership it because a shameless cheerleader for neoliberalism.

illegal war in Iraq, attacked we dissenters, and are for outsourcing.

I will not defend those SOBS!!!!!!!!

Economist=National Review