[sagar]

Each time you purchase from WalMart or eBay or Amazon or CostCo, you are contributing to the trade deficit... China, Vietnam, Mexico, whatever country the products come from.

Something tells me that 99% of those that whine about trade deficits are making their next shopping stop to WalMart or CostCo this evening.

[central_va]

The globalist have made it impossible to buy American. Nobody makes consumer electronics in the USA. The Republican Party got in bed with the globalists and now to everyone surprise personal freedoms are eroding. The uniParty is in the bag of the globalist cartel. It's like they say about rape it's more about power than sex. Free Trade is more about power than profit at this point. Bringing America to heel.

What we are seeing with China and Mexico is not natural comparative advantage. It is purely labor and regulatory arbitrage under global trade agreements and the reason is it happening is because the US government has become the agent of the global-redistribution Left and of transnational businesses, and is no longer the agent of the American people.

---Meet the new boss

[riverdawg]

I’ve often thought the same thing. We have met the enemy and he is us.