This is why, on the globalist stage, the "free market" is, to coin a phrase, a chimera. Mainland China is not a "free market", nor are many other countries we trade with. Pretending that the world stage is one big "free market" is utter idiocy. When it is, then competition within a "free market" is theoretically possible. But, until then, we're just chasing rainbows. It does individuals and the country a disservice to pretend that fair competition is possible under those conditions.
In the long run, nations which restrict freedom fail. Competitive necessity forces them to open up personal and economic liberties.
That is encouraging in a way, but also dangerous. The forces of globalism can be said to have brought the Islamic world to this violent point. The Islamic nations have been resisting modernism tooth and nail. A free Iraq ups the stakes tremendously.
And nobody ever said, or claimed, the the global marketplace was fair.
But, the macroeconomic (aggregate) reality is that America MUST compete globally, no matter how unfair competition from communist regimes and third world countries.
We ALL can see and identify the problems, the hardships, but you haven't offered any solutions.
Now, the Dems for example, they want to nationalize health care for two reasons. And neither one is to "help the children."
First, they want to profit and grow government on the back of health care issues.
Secondly, they want to take the healthcare burden off of big business, shift that cost somewhere else.
Is that a national concept you buy into ??