Why the snide remark “Thanks free trade”? Given that free trade has not even been tried how do you make such a remark?
It would be nice to have free trade. What is the alternative? Would you have the government forcing us to buy products from each other? Please name the industries that have been successful when the government decrees that we have no choice but to buy their product? Education? Steel? Cars? Sugar?.
Why is manufacturing always the favorite child? Using the same anti free trade logic lets restrict ourselves to only domestic energy sources. Let's restrict ourselves to only domestic investment (no foreign capital).
You will really enjoy an economy ran by union bosses and political apparatchiks.
I do not enjoy an economy basically run by our Chinese masters who play games with currency. There is no free market why not fact the truth...these free traders are fakes and are destroying our country.