How coy.
If your customers' businesses are getting their asses kicked by WalMart, then they aren't buying as much from you, are they?
Wow. Thats some serious intellectual rationale on your part. You gotta be a super genuis. Is that you Jethro?
Thats the exact point.
We have a trade policy that benefits Wal Mart and no one else.
This is the exact problem with the economy.
Something like 70% of the working population work in small business. Its not all just about manufacturing. But when manufacturing declines, it reverberates around the US economy. When one link in the chain gets nailed, it hurts everyone.
The domination of Wal Mart is bad for the economy. To have a trade policy designed around what Wal Mart wants is bad. To have one that is anti-labor as we have now, is monumentally stupid.
Its not all just Wal Mart though. Its manufacturers of all sorts...whether its industrial or whatever.
There is a way to better manage trade, but right now its not being done.
What do we do? We find countries that are our friends and who are willing to open up to the US. The current FTAs are fine. Now, for every other country that doesn't have an FTA, they get 150% tarriffs.
A global free for all leaves everyone in the pot. The 150% tarriff plan will focus investment and trade in those FTA areas like a lazer beam, thus raising the standard of living in those areas. It will then create a larger market for goods and services.
In the case of Mexico, it would help solve tons of problems from drug trafficing to immigration.
In the end Mexicans would be as rich as Canadians and WE would be the ones selling to them.
Thats never going to happen with the current system.