[Cronos]

We were doing fine up to the point this free trade crap kicked in.

We were a free trade nation, freely selling our goods to the rest of the world, making money and becoming the richest nation on the planet while the rest of the world played the dumb game of socialism. Well, now they've learnt and are aping us, so we have real competition now.

[Havoc]

We were a free trade nation, freely selling our goods to the rest of the world,

Oh, no. No. Not getting by with it. If you want to correct yourself, then correct yourself; but, "free trade" in this thread and in this country has specific meaning. This country has never engaged in Free trade prior to recent days with the signing of Nafta and the uprising of globalist horsehockey. Free trade was utterly and completely absent from the mix of things that made us a great nation. And it seems designed to hand the product of our blood sweat and tears to the world in exchange for plattitudes that the world is one and happy as long as we become a third world nation again and enrich a few jerks at the top in the process. Correct it, don't handwring.