Date: 12/10/2009
Time: 7:30 AM TO 9:30 AM

750 B Street Suite 3400
San Diego, CA 92101

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Event Description: The WTC Annual Business Meeting: The Annual Business Meeting is the last WTC Board Meeting for 2009. WTC will welcome new board Members as well as recognize current and leaving board Members. This is a wonderful event to meet the WTC Board, Staff, and Members. Please click here to see the list of current board members. Speaker: Daniel Griswold challenges anyone who says free trade is a bad thing to do a closet survey: look at the tags on every item in your closet and see where the products are made. He says his closet holds 120 items, but only 10 of them are made in America. (Nine of them are neckties.) Griswold says we already vote on trade, with our dollars. He wants to dispel myths floating around about trade. For example, we aren't losing our manufacturing base because of it. We still produce plenty. And he asks, "how can we expect hundreds of millions to pull themselves out of poverty if we don't let them participate in the global economy?" Griswold says global poverty was cut in half from the 1980s through 2006. Literacy rates are rising, and so is life expectancy. Daniel Griswold is the author of "Mad About Trade: Why Main Street America Should Embrace Globalization." He's the director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the libertarian think tank, the Cato Institute.


Directions:
The University Club atop Symphony Towers 750 B Street Suite 3400 San Diego, California 92101 USA

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