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a massage theripist makes much more than a factory worker. Plus it's a 'professional' career. One would think that as an improvement in the level of education and skills of the working population.

$17 plus benifits per hr for unskilled labor is the reason those jobs are leaving, not free trade. let's not forget, we have to compete with foriegn labor, free trade or not. We can't just seal the border and place tarriffs on everything comming in. Nothing will be comming in if we did that, and nothing would be going out either.

We can't sustain ourselves from within; I just don't know why some people just can't see that. We would become a soviet union, a closed society. Smart...

"I just don't know why some people just can't see that."

They would rather jump into the wayback machine than adapt to the new realities. Nothing is more sure than that things change and free trade is here to stay, given the state of the modern communication and transportation systems.

Over time, everyone in general benefits from free trade, although there are always going to be individual winners and losers when one is forced to compete. Competition and the market place are wonderful spurs to industry and innovation, which leads to progress.

We can't sustain ourselves from within; I just don't know why some people just can't see that.

OF course we could...