You Free Traders must love Socialism because that’s where it leads.
The country is short 20 Million jobs. People who can’t find a job have to eat and their kids have to have medicine. Your kidding yourself if you think otherwise. Its much better to find jobs for these people.
See how aggressive China is getting. There military is being built on the back of Free Trade.
How expensive do you think WWW3 will be?
Ah, there’s the war drums, right on schedule. Whivh system was it, again, that was more conducive to peace? I’m guessing not the side that begrudges another country getting richer lest it diminish our chances in the war which they assume is inevitable.
Free trade doesn’t lead to socialism. Socialism leads to more socialism. I’ll tell you the easiest way to produce more socialism: tank the economy by going protectionist. Things’ll get worse and they, like you, will blame the free market. Their constant solution in search of a problem will have found the same problem not to fix. I’ve seen this movie before.
Re: “The country is short 20 Million jobs.”
Speaking of “Free Trade”.....
Since 1995 America has “IMPORTED” at least 20 million new completely LEGAL foreign workers.
Most of those foreign workers have limited skills and limited education, which has destroyed the wage base in manufacturing.