[khelus]

The purpose of 'Free Trade' has always been to destroy the American Middle-class.

Absolutely. Marx favored free trade as a tool to put the middle class in its place.

[dragnet2]

Perhaps it is time for a profit and loss statement of its costs and benefits. Undeniably, free trade has been a bonanza for the top 1 percent and many among our top 10 percent.

These are America’s winners from free trade. The losers? Middle Americans. The average U.S. family has not seen a rise in real wages in 40 years.