13 Former Democratic Governors Don't Know That Replacing Domestic Production with Imports Cost Jobs

That probably should have been the headline of a Politico article on a letter signed by 13 former Democratic governors urging Congress to approve fast-track trade authority to facilitate the passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Pact (TTIP). The most newsworthy aspect of the letter is that the governors apparently do not understand the basic economics of trade.

In the letter the governors tell members of Congress:

"We've seen firsthand the...