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earthquake. clearly there s going to be a change in direction. but i don t think anyone knows the answer to how it s going to turn out. host: we will open up our phone lines, and you can also reach us by to witter and by email as the conversation proceeds with david keating. we d like your questions or comments for him. we ll go to phone calls in just a couple of minutes. you heard a number of people call us during theast segment, concerned about the ex-ploy exportation of american jobs overeast. i wonder what your opinion is about free trade deals and what role they have played in bolstering the economy or exporting jobs. guest: there s no doubt that free trade is something that has bolstered the economy here in the u.s. one way of looking at this, to make it easier to understand, is that the united states, one of the geniusesf the constitution and the founding fathers, when they designed the new united states of america was that we would have a free trade inside the unite
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