You’re talking to a guy who despises multi-national agreements like NAFTA, as well as the WTO.
I view them to be a surrender of our sovereignty in part, and I don’t agree to surrendering one iota of that.
If it were really free trade, they would be one page long.
What it's really about is whose livelihood gets thrown under the bus.
Furthermore, by offshoring services and production, they are able to keep the price of those goods and services low.
This enabled the fed to keep lowering interest rates at every excuse without seeming to affect inflation.
But when you think about it, the cost of much of what is produced/provided in America, has gone through the roof in the last few decades.
These include:
Healthcare.
Insurance.
Education.
Real Estate.
So while the banksters and others rake in the profits from all the free money, the average joe fears he’ll be forced to trade in his middleclass job for a lifetime of flpping hamburgers, and suffers from the high cost of domestic goods and services . .
Because all the inflation from decades of low interest rates, have migrated to domestic goods, services, and assets.
Only they don’t call those things inflation. So they get away with this rip-off of hard working Americans.