Yep, free trade is the problem.
Nothing at all to do with high corporate taxes, political power purchased by labor unions, government wildly printing money, stifling energy policies, incomprehensible product-liability court decisions, lax enforcement of patent laws, double taxation of foreign profits, minimum wage edicts......
.....corporate decision-making besieged by EPA, OSHA, Dodd-Frank, Sarbanes-Oxley, and capital formation restricted by Federal Reserve lunacy........diplomas issued increasingly to college graduates unaware of Adam Smith but very knowledgeable of the writings of Noam Chomsky.......
.......incessant vilification of capitalism and religion from Hollywood, and the elevation of those in “public service” far above those who toil in the private sector.
The exodus of jobs from our shores has far more to do with an inhospitable environment for corporations and entrepreneurs, than trade agreements, IMHO. Baby, bathwater.
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Yeah, "inhospitable environment", I'm sure!
Damned greedy employees who just won't commit to the boss's welfare ....
They just won't give up eating!! Those pigs! Two squares a day and a cot, and they never think about their boss's capital formation at all! Just insanely selfish!
Cry me a river.