Trade isn’t why we have a jobs problem, it’s immigration. We haven’t lost jobs, we’ve added them. But they’ve all gone to immigrants.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jun/27/job-gains-equal-number-immigrants/?page=all
If we could shut down immigration and remove welfare/entitlements so that Americans will take the jobs they think they’re too “good for,” we’d be in great shape. We’d have employed Americans and still be able to benefit from cheap imports.
And all the steel mill guys and the guys that built cars and the IT guys can mow lawns and make beds and pick lettuce and be happy and forget buying new homes, etc.?