[Myrddin]

The UAW ate the American car manufacturers...not to mention making some butt ugly vehicles. Motorola has been losing market share for some time. Their products just are up to the quality of earlier years. Their competition makes a better product. The consumer has spoken. IBM voluntarily walked away from a PC market where they could not compete on price or quality. They would be out of business if not for the midsize and mainframe product lines. Even those are threatened by commodity hardware and open source operating systems.

Free trade is what bring a plethora of products within the price range that most can afford. It puts fresh fruits and vegetables on your table all year round. The only people complaining are the union hacks who have priced themselves out of the market.

[bronxboy]

Free trade is destroying this country. I can do without melamine tainted baby formula, dog food that kills dogs, toys with lead paint, TV’s that are so crappy you have to have an iron clad warranty and appliances that are cheap and break easily. The crap this brings into the country makes us dependent in very bad ways and will lead to socialism.
As for cars, GM makes some great cars. I am sick of people bashing their own country’s products...it’s un-American. I buy vegetables in season. If you have ever traveled to Mexico...I don’t want to eat their produce-they have no food protection laws and extremely poor sanitation. I am for COOl-country of origin labeling and will not buy food from overseas. We need to get back to making things in order to have a prosperous capitalistic country...trade is not helping anyone but India and China and will destroy this nation.

[hedgetrimmer]

Your post is so full of globalist talking points, where to begin?

Free trade is what bring a plethora of products within the price range that most can afford.

People out of work due to "free trade" off shoring and outsourcing of jobs can't afford to buy products.

It puts fresh fruits and vegetables on your table all year round.

We had that before "free trade", then Mexico, South America and other countries with incentives paid for by the American taxpayer as part of the falsely named "free trade deals", with lower phytosanitary standards and peon labor put American farmers out of business. In return for the unconstitutional use of our tax money to bolster foreign agriculture,we have lost our high food safety standards to filthy contaminated and sometimes poison food products. Such a deal!

The only people complaining are the union hacks who have priced themselves out of the market.

That's baloney.American citizens have lost authority and sovereignty to the globalists through "free trade". We have lost our domestic economy. We are about to lose our country.