We need not and should not
continue this race to the bottom

ou're the owner of a multiplex theater in a newer mall. Your first year in business has taught you that films vary greatly in the crowds they draw. Some weeks your sales of $5 tubs of buttered popcorn and $3.50 giant soft drinks have meant the difference between making and losing money.
One evening your night manager calls you to the lobby; something about a disturbance. Once there, you  push through a knot of people around a homemade cart and a scruffy character in a sweatshirt, shorts and backwards baseball cap. The cart holds about 20 tubs of  popcorn and maybe 25 giant soft drinks. A sign on it reads, "Buttered Popcorn, $3 - Giant Pop, $1.50."
As you move closer the man jabs a finger in your manager's face, saying: "Don't give me that, buddy; my stuff is as good as yours and this is a free country. I can sell wherever I want. I know what your trouble is - you're greedy and you can't stand a little competition!" 
A cheer goes up from the crowd, prompting the inter-

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Kucinich would repeal NAFTA

From Democratic candidate Rep. Dennis Kucinich's Web site: "The restoration of the rights of workers in America and throughout the North American continent will begin when we repeal NAFTA. NAFTA has spurred a $360 billion trade deficit, costing 363,000 high-paying jobs, most in manufacturing. This is called free trade. But where is freedom when jobs are lost? Where is freedom when industries threaten to move out of the country unless wages are cut? Where is freedom when the right to bargain collectively is crushed? Where is freedom when a union is broken? . . . An economic democracy is a precondition of a political democracy. Where is freedom?"