Nor will CAFTA cost us jobs. Hello, when we sell more, it means more jobs for us.
The analogy isn't flawed, it's your mindset in trying to employ the analogy at its basest point. Nafta has cost us jobs and Cafta will as well. When we sell more, it does not mean more jobs for us. That logistic got broken with the tariff system and offshoring. More profit means businesses can afford to setup shop overseas and sell back to this market because that is more profitable than setting up shop here and selling here. But that doesn't help you to admit.
The king profitted by removing tariffs and dumping British product on the colonies - putting colonists out of work. The Business interests and politicians are profiting from killing tariffs and putting americans out of work. Of course the analogy fails - for you. If it doesn't, that makes you a redcoat.. so of course there have to be knit picky details you can call on to say - "ope, tha analogy fails here". It doesn't fail on it's primary issue.. it's dead on. But that's the part of it you have to show fails, and you cannot. This is where you say "long live the king".
Well, you've swallowed the koolaid alright, but when we buy more than we sell, it means fewer jobs .... and the jobs left are paying less because of the influx of cheap labor.
How in the world does the average American (like Bush's old lady with the three jobs) come out ahead while competing against incredibly cheap labor abroad and falling wage rates at home.
Meanwhile the top 5% (you don't even wanna think about the top 1%) watches with glee as there annual incomes increase at rates that are HUGE multiples of that of the peons.
At the same time you count yourself blessed because you just bought a shiny new power mower at WalMart.
BTW, interesting word if you're into irony, peon.