My bad.
Now quit being a drama queen about it - I also omitted Poohbah's name though I obviously was talking to him too.
Free trade devalues labor and industry.
Populist protectionist pap. Free trade allows industry to maximize it's potential through the procurement of cheap raw materials and access to a greater market than your world of trade tariffs will allow. You're trying to sell the notion that Government's job is to run interference for inefficient businesses rather than levelling the playing field and allowing us to do what we do best - compete.
People have been spreading your workforce doom and gloom under various guises for as long as I can remember - industrial automation, Germany, Japan, and now China. We're doomed, yet somehow, each time, we keep staving off defeat.
Like I said above or in another thread - if the current economic trend/program of free trade globilization grows the middle class or maintains its numbers then I would deem it a success. Right now We have seen a stagnation and even a slight shrinkage in the middle class life style and size so I am not able to back it fully as of yet.