I saw an entire alternate existance of slow death and anti-fungal spray flash before my eyes the second I read it...
Also, if I may say so -- both free traders and protectionists miss the point. Business will always follow cheap labor. It's a rule as sound as any physics law. Given the spread between American wages and those of third world countries, there is no way American workers can compete head to head in similar industries.
The real point of the debate -- if I may say so -- is how to make the U.S. workforce relevant in this new century?