[Alberta's Child]

First of all, you will not find anything in my posts that says I'm an advocate of "free trade" agreements. I'm simply pointing out who is advocating for legislative protection, and why different industries -- every industry, in fact -- spends millions of dollars lobbying government to make it: (1) less expensive for them to do business, and (2) more expensive for their competitors to do business. That's just a fact, and if you have a problem with it then you should deal with it through your Congressman, your U.S. Senators, the President of the United States, or Santa Claus.

Secondly, this idea that we can somehow go back to the post-WW2 period when the U.S. middle class was at its peak and "get that back" is delusional. The affluence of the U.S. middle class in the post-WW2 period was a historical anomaly, not the norm. The U.S. was the only industrial power that emerged from WW2 with its infrastructure unscathed, and it had something like 40% of the world's total GDP in 1950. There is no way that can ever be sustained over time, unless part of your plan to "get that back" involves bombing the cities of all the other industrial powers to the ground every 40-50 years.

[Enlightened1]

I laughed at your comment about go see your congress man or Senator. LOL!

You would get more loyalty from Boss Hog then those corrupt bums. They are only loyal to foreign countries and the h*ll with the American people seems to what drives them internally. Their actions tell us everything we need to know about them.

Oh and the so called “Free Trade” and overturning Glass Steagall Act Was a colossal mistake.

I love this country and don’t want to see it go down the $hit hole because of some corrupt officials. It’s horrible what they have done. They are really going to bankrupt future generations if they do not change the course.