[blueberry12]

no one is talking about "economic isolationism". we had (have) trade policies on autos for example - import quotas and tariffs - that are responsible for most of the foreign companies building cars in the US. we want sane trade policies, agreements and the use of tariffs and import quotas were applicable against nations that do the same to us, or who practice policies like currency pegs to manipulate the trade balance in their favor.

free trade is simply a giveaway to corporations who want to offshore jobs and plants to lower cost locales, and bring in products to the US market tariff free. in our economy now, we create (net) almost solely service jobs and government jobs. if you work in tech or manufacturing, even in alot of white collar backoffice jobs which can be done offshore (accounting, financial services, etc) - you are dead meat.

See, that's what I'm saying too!

[WOSG]

see #55