Non-answer. I’ll take that to mean that you and the other protectionists would rather keep the status quo—Colombian products enter the U.S. duty free, and our get tariffed out the wazoo.
The horse is out of the barn anyway. The midwest has already been screwed by free trade, and those jobs aren’t coming back. The result is some people made a lot of money and a lot of workers lost their jobs. And because of that, people are going to start voting for socialists, who will then take away the money made by those people who profited from it. It’s sad that people think voting for socialists will bring the jobs back.
That’s why I always thought that we should tariff their goods at the same rate they tariff ours...so we stop selling out the greenback.
Don't know about mysterio but my solution the problem you have mentioned here isn't to outsource our bread and butter to other countries, such as colombia, but to tax their a** as much as they tax ours. Fair trade is a farce and has brought nothing but devastation to this country, anyone who can't see that is blind, including you. Sure, you can post some phony figures that show how great Nafta and other idiotic programs are but most of the statistics are false, very similar to the phony data used to prove "global warming".
Our economy and the steady drop in real wages is the real proof. Not only that, people such as me who have lived many, many years know that the percentage of wages to prices was much better in the 50s, for instance.
You can scream and call names and do other idiotic BS but it doesn't change the facts. Nafta and other similar programs have knocked the crap out of the average person's wage to price ratio. Both people in a marriage, or just a couple living together if you will, have to work now, before the 1970s. this was not true, one person worked and the average person bought cars and houses with no problem.
This is not true now, regardless of how you want to spin it, the proof is in the pudding as they say.Free trade sucks.