It might for the short term. Our first real conflict with a foreign power, however, will have us ruing the day the last company capable of producing metal armor (there's currently only ONE left) for our Humvee's offshored all production to China. Can there be balance? Can we please retain some semblanace of a viable industrial base stateside? Please? Does it have to be all one (free trade regardless of the practices or disposition of each trading partner) or all the other (isolted protectionism)? Is a balanced, common sense approach that is neither off the table? Just asking, in sincerity.
It’s not free trade if our government taxes and regulates our businesses out of this country. Not to mention the stupid rules unions demand of business.
If we want to keep our mfg jobs in this country, we need to create an environment favorable to doing business here.
Less taxes and less regulation, torte reform, etc would be good starts. We can compete with any nation on Earth provided the government gets the hell out of the way!
I think when Hunter talks about fair trade, its these type of things he is talking about doing. If I am wrong, I am sure someone will set me straight.