I agree. My FU emails will increase no doubt. Free traders promised America that we would not lose jobs...We lost jobs. Now they tell us we don’t need those jobs anyway. The free trade globalists have much to answer for-they not only were wrong, they lied through their teeth and refused to admit their many mistakes. ‘Illegals take jobs America won’t do’...tell that to the thousands of Americans seeking jobs who lined up at a chicken plant in GA after the illegal workers were arrested. ‘We will be the idea people.’Tell that to Techies . who have lost many jobs to H1B visa holders who are needed to to do the jobs America is to stupid to do according to free traders like Gates of Microsoft. There are liars, damn liars and then the liars of free trade fame who have bankrupted this country.
I agree. My FU emails will increase no doubt. Free traders promised America that we would not lose jobs...We lost jobs. Now they tell us we don’t need those jobs anyway. The free trade globalists have much to answer for-they not only were wrong, they lied through their teeth and refused to admit their many mistakes. ‘Illegals take jobs America won’t do’...tell that to the thousands of Americans seeking jobs who lined up at a chicken plant in GA after the illegal workers were arrested. ‘We will be the idea people.’Tell that to Techies . who have lost many jobs to H1B visa holders who are needed to to do the jobs America is to stupid to do according to free traders like Gates of Microsoft. There are liars, damn liars and then the liars of free trade fame who have bankrupted this country.
I understand all this. In fact, logic alone demonstrates Free Trade/Globalism does not work, will not work, and will never work.
Not only we have lost good jobs, and have had other professions racked by illegal or non-citizen labor....we are seeing our agricultural system displaced by shipping out American agri-products...and forcing the US to import staples...we now have to import food!
Also....you notice how the US agri budget keeps growing....we taxpayers now subsidize agriculture even more...because the wealth-redistribution from bad free trade deals has put the ag-industry in a hole....it cant compete with foreign subsidized ag products...no matter how many illegals the ag industry hires
Just the stupidity of all these bad trade deals
“Illegals take jobs America won’t do’...tell that to the thousands of Americans seeking jobs who lined up at a chicken plant in GA after the illegal workers were arrested.”
I worked in the construction industry. You would have been hard pressed to find a carpenter, carpet layer, brick layer, roofer or framer, who could speak English. Americans would have happily done those jobs, just not for $8.00 an hour.
Another sad fact is that those jobs were once entry level jobs and many of the people driving the nails would eventually become foremen. Not so with the Mexican nationals, they work till the job is done then take their money back to Mexico. During the great building boom a few years ago I was on site tweaking some cabinets, and the building superintendent, who was just out of college with a degree in music appreciation, wanted me to move a base cabinet to a spot reserved for a sink cabinet, I showed him the pipes that the plumber had stubbed out and the blueprint showing a sink, he had no idea how to read a blueprint, or even a line drawing. He told me he was getting more money than he ever thought he would make having trained to be a music teacher, but even though he had no skills or experience in the building sector, the fact that he had a college degree was why he got hired. Unfortunately he didn’t know anything and most of the Mexican workers either didn’t know either, or didn’t care.
The way I see it, trade with countries that use slave labor is not “FREE TRADE” it is “SLAVE TRADE.”