Now you and some others are trying to cloud the issue that the 'Guvmint' had no part in creating the debacle we are in right now. They had much more to do with it than cheaper products.
They promote the moving of businesses offshore.
They made loans to businesses to build factories offshore. They used our tax dollars so businesses could build factories in other countries so we could loose our jobs. No government involved here.
Why in the world the government have 'trade missions' if not to promote business moving offshore.
When a person looses his job due to NAFTA - why does the taxpayers have to pay that person unemployment for 2 years and train them for another job - no government interference here - just free trade.
The government did'nt tax companies to death, they didn't affirmative action them to death, they didn't politically correct them to death, they didn't in general regulate them to death - no no government interference here - just the old bad unions and good old free trade.
I think there would many government actions that would make all of us turn blue if we knew of it.
Now the pioneers did make it across the prairie without the government - but we would not have made it to this very precarious position without the government.
I suspect this country wouldn't know free trade if they saw it.
To promote the lowering of trade barriers, such as this latest proposal from the Bush administration: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41291-2002Nov26.html
why does the taxpayers have to pay that person unemployment for 2 years and train them for another job - no government interference here - just free trade.
Then what you're arguing against is government interference, not free trade. Don't let yourself be fooled just because the bureaucrats steal the title for their purposes...