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Sign me up also. Since the end of the WW2 we have had this free trade crap forced on us in the name of global security. In that time we have gone from a one wage earner family with a good standard of living to a two income family living from pay-check to paycheck. With record debt all while we try to keep our standard of living forget about increasing that standard of living. Enough is Enough. I don't want my children to have to work to keep up our standard of living. At this rate we will have to 4 family wage earners to stay at the present standard of living. Sounds alot like the present day immigrants doesn't it.

[1rudeboy]

I'm so tired of that line of argument. If you want to live at the 1950 standard-of-living level, you can do it on one income today. Knock yourself out.

[groanup]

You blame all of this on free trade? My friend you are so miserably mistaken. Taxes. Taxes, taxes taxes. Nothing else comes close.

[mississippi red-neck]

In that time we have gone from a one wage earner family with a good standard of living to a two income family living from pay-check to paycheck. With record debt all while we try to keep our standard of living forget about increasing that standard of living.

Thank you very much .

I thought I was one of the few left who remembered when we where a self sufficient independent country and the world need us instead us needing the world.

What you said along very fact that we have so many free traders and dollar worshipers terrified at the thought that we have angered a bunch of desert Arab states, proves what happens to a country when it invests it's future inside the countries of those who envy or hate it.

Especially when they invest to the point to a point that the economic well being of our nation is in their hands.

Because of the no borders, free trade, anything for a dollar crowd, we have and are continuing to place the economic security of our country in the hands of those that would change or destroy America.

Now we have a large part of the people in the world's supposedly only superpower wailing in financial fear from the threat of a few Arab states with people in them who's dream is to take the world back to the seventh century.

It ain't just our military security that a lot of American companies have sold to the highest bidder but our economic security.

It is now a race to see which one goes off inside what's left of our borders first. The nuclear or financial bomb.