"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:jVT8d.197752$D%.81366@attbi_s51...
True, but we could lessen this affect quite a bit by pursuing free
trade agreements with 1st world partners, instead of 3rd world. With
3rd world partners big business gets cheap labor and they get a market
to dump cheap goods. Our middle class loses. With 1st world partners
we'd get a market for high-value-added goods and no cheap labor
competition. The middle class would win.

Which 1st world countries don't we have free-trade agreements with?

Would someone please give me a definition of 1st, 2nd and 3rd world countries?

What is the deciding factor?

Bryan