[Dog Gone]

The garment industry is basically already gone from this country. The jobs were always lousy jobs. Nobody ever went to school to become someone who makes mens' underwear.

If garments can be produced in other countries by workers making 50 cents a day, we can't compete with that. The protectionists would like to ban or impose huge tariffs on imported garments to make domestic production of garments economically viable. They don't mind that it would make clothes cost five times what it does today.

They want to protect those crappy jobs, no matter what.

[hedgetrimmer]

Nobody ever went to school to become someone who makes mens' underwear.

Yes you're right. Let's limit everyones economic opportunities by advantaging those in other countries. Doesn't matter if its your neighbors job, get rid of it! Its embarrassing that someone in America might be a sewer or a factory worker, those jobs are so 19th century. Better they learn how to clean hotels so when the G8 holds their meetings here, the rooms are presentable.

[phoenix0468]

Actually, there were some pretty good jobs here in Oklahoma until just a few years ago. I'm not sure if any of the recent trade agreements caused the closing of a Wrangler's plant.