How do they help me anyway? I can purchase frozen apple or orange concentrate made from fruit grown in Brazil or China at the local wholesale outlet for .69 to.79 cents. Big deal. I can get that product for the same price when the fruit is grown here, always have, even before we started flooding the market with fruit from other countries.
The price hasn't gone down, but the cost of labor has, so that means the CEOs get those big bonuses. And they contribute nicely to the coffers of politicians elected to represent the people. If American farmers go out of business, who cares? These trade deals aren't even doing anything to stop the illegal alien flow. Like I said, it's a scam, and everyone knows it.
You know, a cynical person could call this cozy relationship between CEOs and Politicians "Feather Bedding". It's interesting how our politicos can, by the stroke of a pen, "Make Legal" exactly the same kind of hanky panky activity that would land the average businessman in jail.
I agree with every point you made. Slowly but Surely America is moving from being a "nation of laws" to a "nation of political rulers".