In case you do not know what a free market looks like. Here is an example - the free currency market of free people in the US and Canada;
Trying to compete against China is like playing against a stacked deck. Maybe you would have a better understanding how American firms feel as they are told they must produce for the "Chinese" price.
Putting up huge trade barriers and starting a trade war in order to cover up the fundamental reasons for this countries inability to compete?
Bashing consumers for buying the goods they want at a price they want to pay as if they were different people than those who are supposedly losing jobs that they desire?
Bashing people in other countries for the crime of trying to earn a living?
Pretending that poorer countries can ever buy more from richer countries than they sell to them?
Pretending that this country couldn't ramp up production of any damn thing we want to produce, from pajamas to steel if the need or the desire arose?
Pretending that we have vast numbers of unemployed when the current unemployment rates are within a percent of practical full employment?
Pretending that the other biggest bugaboo on FR, illegal immigrants, are coming here in huge numbers because there are no jobs here?
Any of those points?
Or do you want to talk about currency valuations? Because this thread isn't about currency valuations, it's about laying blame. It's about pretending to be a good American by doing precisely what liberals do, feel-goodism, while calling others traitors for not buying into all that BS.
You haven't done most of those things and I sense you are way too intelligent to do so, but respectfully, you have missed the point of this thread IMO.
Build a quality product, the buyers will buy from you.