[T]he system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.

F. A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, 1944

[A] government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take everything you have.

When we last visited the campaign fallout from President Clinton's deal to admit China to the World Trade Organization (WTO), the AFL-CIO was gearing up to make the deal's defeat a top legislative priority, even at the cost of weakening the Democratic nominee. That would presumably be Vice President Gore, whom labor has endorsed. Meanwhile, House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt, frantically working to avoid a NAFTA-style donnybrook, was trying to broker some kind of compromise that would keep labor on board.