I hope that the point you got out of what I said was that this is PRECISELY how the money men think of it, that conservatives are mostly on the side of the moneymen, and that by following their leadership on trade we are killing the farms, killing the industrial sector and shipping everything to China. And what we’re buying back from China is now killing our pets. But oh well, pets don’t give anybody jobs, and replacing them is good for the pet breeding industry. Can’t let anything get in the way of moneymen making money, because that is the REASON we have a capitalist system, doncha know? And unregulated capitalism is best. Ronald Reagan said so, so you know it must be true.
I hear you! There’s got to be a point where “money” is not the entire picture! Our health (and our pets) is at stake. The chinese will also do things as cheaply as possible and have no conscience for the standards of product they put out. We just buy it hook line and sinker.
Huh?
Yet while we welcome all this unregulated free trade we have no problem with regulating our own companies out of business with countless agencies breathing down their necks with more regulations than you can count.
Which business can compete better? The one who has all the regulations or the one that can just dump their industrial waste in the creek that is used to water the export crops? Free trade, as it exists, is just an unbalanced playing field.
If an American company encountered a Prebbles Meadow Mouse, they will be shut down to provide habitat. The Chinese Prebbles Meadow Mouse? Well, you can put just about anything in an eggroll.