[PatrioticAmerican]

"Free trade prevents me from buying a $1200.00 microwave and $600 tennis shoes."

...and from having a job to pay for $100 microwaves and $100 sneakers because some 12 year old child in India has your job.

Your example is horse hockey!

Are you saying that America is not a viable economy? That no one can live here? I guess whatever it is that you do you must cost too much? Maybe some child needs to do it?

Where the Hell is this idea that America is too expensive to produce anything coming from? We are the greatest nation on Earth, and everyone wants to live here, yet, we suck??? How on earth did we get to be the greatest if we are too useless to produce anything????

If American companies want to produce cheap products in cheap countries, then let them sell those item there, not here.

[Bluntpoint]

I guess whatever it is that you do you must cost too much? Maybe some child needs to do it?

I used to practice law. Learned it was a dead end career for an honest person. I adapted and changed. I now own a farm, raise quarter horses and do some writing on the side. I make considerably less money now. I accept that. I will leave fighting windmills for you chaps.