[central_va]

Yeah... my son watched his dad give up sick days etc... all for the factory he worked at for 27 years get sent to Brazil and we aren’t even a union state.

According to the FR open border free trade club you father was supposed to retrain to do brain surgery after being freed up from mundane manufacturing work

[autumnraine]

Yeah i see that a lot around here. Or he shouldn’t have so stupid to get some lowly factory job

[Nowhere Man]

According to the FR open border free trade club you father was supposed to retrain to do brain surgery after being freed up from mundane manufacturing work

True. We shot ourselves in the foot on this one.

I know maybe being the only major power after WWII that was not blown to bits to one degree or another was a big help too, but I think our policies hurt us big time too. We have too much regulation, taxes, unions wanting the Moon and so on that hurt us big time. The other side too is the adherence to the idea of global free trade. In an ideal situation, free trade is the best idea, but we live in a world that is real, not ideal. Most nations, like people, protect their own interests and this includes their economies. We do not do the same and we have become chumps because of it.