...And you ignore a key result of the destruction of those low-semi skilled stable jobs. A huge and growing underclass as it is impossible to work your way out of the ghetto...
Thank you for posting that. I grew up in Detroit. Same problem with Flint. (And I'm sure with many other cities).
You are correct about the large and growing underclass.
The loss of these industrial jobs has ment that people in our country with a moderate education don't have a chance of making enough to support a family.
When it's just people who don't want to work and just want to get high and party are the ones left out, no big loss.
But when you have to have an advanced degree or some set of unique technical skills in order to support a family, that's going to leave a lot of average Americans unable to properly raise a family.
That forces the rest of us to pay the costs of these broken families - in social services, welfare, police, the criminal justice system, etc.
We are being forced to sacifice our families and lifestyle (which includes our traditions and freedoms) so that other countries, whose people are not nearly as free as us, will benefit.
I don't think that "Free Trade" with a government that treats it's citizens like China does is a good deal. At least make them adhere to some standards of how they treat their workers / citizens.
I guess free traders plan to outsource the raising of families. The next generation of Americans can be imported at much lower costs and it will be much more docile.