Laura Bartz, Chapter 12, question 5

I found it particularly interesting when Wheelan was talking about how trade helps developing or third world countries. Politicians like to go on and on about how we need to get our industry back and cut off foreign trade. But those are also the same people that talk about how we need to fundraiser money to help those poorer third world countries grow. What they don't seem to realize or what they don't talk about is that to be able to help those third world countries grow, we need to have a lot of foreign trade. It's the idea of give a man to fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a life time. Expect in this case if you give a man to fish it will get caught up in red tape and the man will never get to eat anything. Foreign trade boosts economies and encouraging foreign trade will help to change the climate of how the general public seems to feel about trade.