[1rudeboy]

Because we just know (feel, rather) that displaced jobs are lost forever. They just simply evaporate. That's why you see people selling pencils on every street corner.

[oceanview]

the service industry, government, health care, education - its pretty clear where those jobs have gone to. the free traders believe we can survive on those jobs and their respective wages alone - and lose manufacturing, and now the technology and white collar information related industries.