[Netizen]

We don't need to produce EVERYTHING. but it would be nice if returned to producing some things and stopped exporting jobs that we could use here in the states.

[Republic of Reagan]

We don't need to produce EVERYTHING. but it would be nice if returned to producing some things and stopped exporting jobs that we could use here in the states.

So then you admit that we need free trade. In general, those items which we export, and yes, even "jobs", are essentially offset by those things that we import, and those imports likewise create jobs. So, while certain types of jobs are "exported" our imports create different jobs here. Realize we have one of the lowest unemployment rates in the world. It is hard to explain how this is so if we keep sending "millions and millions" of jobs oversees. You can't have it both ways. Either you need to have the free exchange of goods and services, without the disruption of trade barriers and protectionism (the latter is what you are proposing), or you need to get out of the free trade system altogether, build an economic wall around the country, and hope we don't fully collpase into nothingness within 1-2 years.