[dogbyte12]

The 2,600 workers layed off from RJ Reynolds (just announced today) are going to do what? North Carolina is bleeding manufacturing and textile jobs. It is a race to the bottom.

I think the onus is on the free traders to explain what to do about the unemployable. There will be a large group of unemployable people in the future. Economically, culturally, law enforcement wise, what is their plan to counter-act this by product of "free trade". I went to my home town 2 weeks ago, to an area that was booming in the 80's and 90's. The job losses in the area are huge. Gangs, guns, drugs, graffiti have moved in blighting the area. This was an upwardly mobile community. I felt safe growing up there when the economy was good. I wouldn't go out there alone, or unarmed now though.

Unemployed young men are roaming the streets.

[BMiles2112]

I think the onus is on the free traders to explain what to do about the unemployable.
There is an assumption here that people, in general, aren't smart enough to figure out what jobs exist, what they pay, and what future there is in these jobs, and they will become permanently unemployed. Hundreds of thousands of former farmers found work outside agriculture once machinery made their labor virtually worthless.