[pierrem15]

One key message is that trade deals are far more expensive than we’ve treated them, because sustained job development and training programs need to be counted as part of their costs.

A great example of someone who has learned much and understood nothing.

The real question to ask is whether or not subjecting the working class to repeated bouts of unemployment and then providing tremendously expensive "retraining" isn't just an enormous subsidy to importers who contribute nothing to the well-being of the United States.

And if so, why are we doing it?

[JayGalt]

Exactly right, and we are doing it with the tax money of the dispensables we so loftily propose to reeducate.

[JediJones]

Importers contribute to us by lowering the cost of goods.