Back when I was young the whole free trade thing made sense to me. Now I see decimated manufacturing towns where people are either junkies or unemployed long term, most of. Many of these people are unskilled and uneducated. They used to run a broom or shovel but won’t because the immigrants have kept the wages too low. What never transpired is the growth of other economies that were suppose to buy our goods.
Guess what people? I am college educated and in my industry I am seeing people not too far from my level being outsourced. Do not assume you are invaluable. Bean counters will sell you out in a heart beat.
The "experts" were telling us it's a good thing, and we will all have nice clean "service industry" jobs instead of dirty manufacturing jobs. They sold it to Americans, and we believed them. Now we have no manufacturing, and the service jobs are being grabbed by illegals or outsourced (call centers in India etc.).