> We’ve been exporting jobs much more efficiently than products.
Actually, just prior to this recession our unemployment rate was under 5%. How can you claim that we have been losing jobs? Are you claiming that without trade our unemployment would have been lower? Do you have any evidence to support that claim? Free trade has been disproportionally good for our country (probably because we have been most committed to free trade). Why would you want to kill the proverbial goose?
A lot of those jobs were bubble-related and not in manufacturing. Mortgage brokers and real estate agents do not make for a strong economy.