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Excuse me, America is currently 17 trillion dollars in debt, and growing.

Millions of American jobs have been exported to China. America meanwhile, is facing budgetary problems, and even a shrinking military budget.

China runs a 300 billion a year, and growing surplus with America.

Now America doesn’t have enough jobs. All our stores are filled with goods made in communist China, and we are not even willing to discuss that perhaps, we did this to ourselves.

No. Sorry I will not shut up. Not while American jobs are being sent overseas.

America needs jobs.

Jobs.

Well, yeah?

But they arent something to pack up and transport from China like some sort of product. China and India are offering a much more lucrative market than we are. Like it or not.

Want jobs? Well then you are going to have to create them. You are going to have to create something that people want, go through all of the government tape to get it started and then be able to pay people enough while keeping the cost of the product low enough so people will buy it.

Stomping you feet and demanding someone do something isnt going to do squat. No company is required to be in the US just because. If they cant compete, then they go under, and that job wont get “shipped” to China, it will just vanish.

You are 100% correct. Both political parties sold out the American worker for campaign funds from Wall Street and the multinationals. Our 25 year experiment with one-sided free trade has been a disaster for the economy, for the American worker, and for our national security.

Now they are sending American agriculture overseas. At a time when chickens grown in China are infected with bird flu and not fit for human consumption, agribusiness and the administration have conspired to begin sending US chickens to China for processing and then sent back to a supermarket near you. At the same time the Department of Agriculture is cutting back the number of food inspectors and allowing food processors to self police while permitting them to speed up the lines. Apparently it occurs to no one in government or industry the Chinese might cheat, diverting the American chickens to Chinese tables while sending the infected birds to the US.

At US food processors, immigrants provide most of the labor. When those jobs go overseas what will these immigrants do for jobs? They’ll stand in line with the millenials

For most of its history the US had high tariffs and we built the strongest economy in the world. During the 19th century the federal government was funded primarily with tariffs and fees. Why should American companies pay a corporate tax rate of 30% for goods they produce at home when foreign factories are not taxed at all for free access to the largest consumer market in the world? This is not free trade.

Free trade to the founders did not mean no tariffs or duties. Free trade meant American merchants were free to trade with any nation, not that imports were free from duties and fees.

The evidence is in. High tariffs in the 1800’s allowed the United States to build the strongest industrial infrastructure in the world and the most prosperous middle class. The elimination of tariffs and quotas since 1990 has resulted in the great American manufacturing engine being dismantled, a shrinking middle class job opportunities, declining household incomes for the first time in our history, and the explosion of the welfare state. The prescription is clear. Raise tariffs, lower taxes and regulation on businesses manufacturing products in the US and you’ll see factories and jobs return.