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I have read this entire thread with interest. Your posts have a certain forcefullness to them. It appears you have nothing but distain for those who differ with you regards "free trade".You talk a good talk. You are fast and witty. However, I could not disagree with you more. In fact, if my blood pressure were as high as yours, I would probably blow a gasket. Your attempts to paint those who disagree with you as treasonous traitors to this country does not win converts. It simply alienates a good many people from your philosophy, people who have, in their own ways, placed their all on the line for this country.

The damage done to government credibility and faith is pretty much at an all time low with all those watching everyone around them being sold out for slave labor.
Let me get this straight: There are people, a great many of them, who are watching everyone around them lose their jobs to foreign replacements (slave labor) , who have also lost all faith in the US govt, and think the US govt credibility is at an all time low?

If that is indeed the translation of the above quote, you have no basis or foundation for making such a statement.
We have been losing 8-10 % of our existing jobs every year since 1950. However, there is a net gain overall since then. Certainly, there are pockets of ebb and flow, but the total number of jobs has increased. The current unemployment rate says that roughly 95% of the work force are in fact employed. They vote as well as the 5% that are not.

There are of course pockets of joblessness, in some places an unbearable amount. In other places, the local economy is in danger of overheating, with very low unemployment.

Blanket statements about the dismal and sad state of affairs regards employment, or the lack thereof due to outsouceing probably goes over well in that union hall described above, especially if the workers are liberals, and are looking for yet another dart to throw at the "selected" president their union leader warns them about. In many other places, people would simply smile, and turn away from your eloquent reasoning.

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Let me get this straight: There are people, a great many of them, who are watching everyone around them lose their jobs to foreign replacements (slave labor) , who have also lost all faith in the US govt, and think the US govt credibility is at an all time low?

Exactly. Now you are getting it. Look at voter apathy. What do think causes such low participation in the election process? It's the belief that, politicians, like corporate officers, are only in it for themselves.