“What the winners win is more than what the losers lose.”
Problem is there is one winner for every 10 losers
I can tell ya what I witnessed. Scuttled manufacturing facilities. Dozens upon dozens of manufacturing plants with knee high weeds growing in what was once employee parking lots.
Small town America dying or dead. Small communities with downtown districts abandoned/empty and deteriorating.
Free trade? Trade deficits, American middle class being crushed, stagnant/decreasing wages, close to a 100 million people out of the labor force.
Cheaper goods? How do we know? I do know this, Chinese, Mexican workers are worked long hours for very little pay, very few benefits. The biggest benefit Foxconn China provided were nets around the outside of the buildings to catch stressed out, distraught workers from jumping to their deaths.
Chinese air, land and water pollution is horrible. Environmental safeguards? Hardly. Worker safeguards? Hardly
Americans cannot compete without a level playing field. We cannot compete with near slave labor.
Americans were sold down the river.