What Free Trade Has Done to the Marketplace

We channeled 1988 and flagged down the ice cream van for an afternoon snack.

1. Ice cream van/truck merchants are still scary.
2. He tried to stiff us a dollar.
3. It seems the product has really suffered over the past few decades.

Speaking of channeling 1988:

1. The Dow Jones crashes to just over 1911 points.
2. Ronald Reagan asks Congress (and is rejected) for $36m to support Nicaraguan contras.
3. Sonny Bono is elected mayor of Palm Springs.
4. The Soviets are defeated in Afghanistan.
5. Microsoft releases Windows 2.1.
6. Michael Dukakis.
7. The Ocean Odyssey drilling rig suffers a blowout and fire in the North Sea.