Stop it already!
Free trade is fine. China has issues with an arbitrary rule of law and lacking safe checks we expect. Other countries we trade with DO have this in place.
“Its only a matter of time before a human being dies from this sort of thing.. whether by accident, or by a jihadist figuring out its easier to contaminate wheat gluten in a plant in China or on a boat crossing the ocean to be put in Chef Boyardee in america than it is to contaminate it in the plant that will finally package it and ship it to your store where you will happily put it front of your child to eat.”
The U.S. will NEVER be 100% safe - either from terrorist, home grown murdering LEFTISTS etc.. I don’t want to live in a lock down world. You take your chances and when your number is up, IT’S UP! That is beyond my control. However I’m not going to intentionally kill myself either. BTW, we don't eat Chef Boyardee. We buy fresh meat NOT from China as well as fresh fish, vegetable and fruit - NOT FROM CHINA. I don't like preservatives and chemicals in my food.
“Free trade is the biggest scam ever perpetrated on America, bar none.”
Get out of here!
To be an isolationist is VERY unhealthy.
Get over Buchanan.
Whos talking isolationism? That shows how utterly perverted your mind has been twisted by the free trading lies. You can have trade without this free trade nonsense.
China has issues because we can’t enforce crap on them, because they (like any other trading partner) now has open access... we decide their products are unsafe and stop importing them, they take us to some unelected body who says, YOU MUST LET THEM IN.... Just like Mexican Trucks who are substandard and will, if they are not already, plowing over americans on interstates.
Free trade is an abject SCAM and lie. And being opposed to free trade is not isolationism. Trade should always remain a bilateral agreement between 2 nations.... so that when you have a nation like China who imprissons its political enemies, executes dissenters, has no environmental laws, or even the most basic food safety or worker safety systems and they want access to a more developed market and nation with their products the more developed nation can make their access conditional on meeting ITS requirements for import, and with carrots and sticks lift up the lower nation to a higher place, which is better for both sides in the end.
What you have with WTO, NAFTA AND GATT is nothing more than abject scam and the absolute worst trade policies ever seen in the history of this republic.
Remind me how good it is when the next batch of rat poison winds up in some kids spaghettios.