Same with steel, machine tools, plastics, microchips, electronics, etc. Lots of factors every time
I have a half dozen friends in their late forties and early fifties who are barely hanging onto their home or have lost it but all of whom at one time lectured me about Free Trade. Now, not so much, they lost their jobs to H1-B Visa holders and every where they go the fact that they're over forty is all that really matters no matter how they slide around it. Not enough qualified people so let the market work ? Horse hockey, there aren't enough qualified people who will work wages a Bulgarian thinks are great.
Where's the free market in that? Their employer doesn't have to come to them and try to negotiate their salary down, show them how market factors changed, ask them to work for what two guys from Bulgaria would cost, they just let them go and fill out the forms swearing to God they can't get qualified people.
Wow, free market, the employer doesn't owe the employee a thing and it's alllll good because in theory it'll be fine in the long run. Please, free market my aunt Fannie, the employee isn't even in the market they're a commodity that illegals or imports replace just like foreign steel and foreign electronics replace US made steel and electronics because cheap labor is better and easier to screw over and cheaper than automation or training your people the way companies used to do.
How much free trade and free market do those folks who were fined and put out of business for not kowtowing to queers have ?
It's time to either fix what's wrong with the system that keeps Free Trade and "let the market work" from being a reality right here in the US for everyone, not just for those who can buy themselves a Congress Critter, or to stop telling the lie that those things will do any more than deliver more of the same misery with a few million illegal immigrants on top as icing.
If the fat cats couldn't move their cash cow overseas to avoid the very same things they fund, advocate, and bribe to get right here in the US they'd fund, advocate, and bribe, to get rid of what keeps the system here from working for everyone here. There is no "Free Trade" or "Free Market", there's a rigged game the big guys have bought and paid for and defending that crony capitalist system as if it's a real free market system is just absurd.
You sound like Carly Fiorina, the powerful, the well connected...
Uh. I don’t understand where you are going with all this. You blame the oil and gas industry for the lack of jobs?
Low fuel prices help create jobs that extend far beyond the oil and gas field. Ending the oil export ban not only will lower fuel prices (saving jobs in other industrues) but also saves domestic oil and gas jobs. It also helps with our trade imbalance since we can export a higher quality crude product and import cheaper heavy crude that our refineries are set up for. It’s a win win