Are you really that clueless?
Its not just “conservatives” who buy the best products at the lowest prices at WalMart. You will find out that, most of those low income folks that voted for the RATS, actually shop at WalMart. You see, they may vote stupidly Democrat, but they are not gonna go and buy an item from one shop, when exactly the same item can be bought more cheaply at WalMart. Its called good old American common sense. One reason why inflation has been so low over the past 10 years is because of the very low prices we get at WalMart, which in turn sources a lot of their products from China.
You can't stop progress. The unions can blame themselves for driving costs up with their insane demands, and driving a lot of our manufacturers out of this country.
You call it clueless, to think that it was a mistake for America — once the world’s leading manufacturing nation, the so called “arsenal of Democracy”, has voluntarily shipped that great manufacturing base, that force for good.
To a communist nation?
“You can’t stop progress”
Well please explain to us clueless folk where the progress is? Ricardo never meant “free trade” to destroy a nations jobs. The marginal cost of labor between trading partners was of paramount importance in determing the price of goods between nations. That is unless one nation voluntarilly gave up their higher stand of living. Noone can argue that we have made “progress” in doing that!