I’ve been reading FR long enough to notice there’s a sizable number of posters who have so bought and drank the “free trade” kool-aid, who won’t be satisfied until there are simply no more jobs in America.
Simply to break unions.
Why? Because unions are too socialist. As an isolated concern, that’s a pretty valid one. But it’s the “solution” to that concern, which has evolved into sheer idiocy.
The solution: Send all those jobs to a communist giant, so they can create history’s largest military. Nuclear missile submarines. Carriers. Satellites. And the worldn’s most formidable industrial base.
(can you say “Rosie the Riveter” ... I knew you could)
With our money.
Brilliant. Just brilliant.
Patently absurd.
No one wants to see all our union jobs go overseas. We won't get too upset if the natural course of economics leads companies to move these jobs overseas in the face of costly and inefficient union demands. But we'd be happier to see the jobs move to largely non-union states like Tennessee, and happier still if Michigan would learn its lesson and kill off the unions so the jobs never have to leave in the first place.
It's pretty clear your biases are leading you to imagine things.