[Willie Green]

Manufacturing jobs are down because of automation, robotics, and other technological advances.

And that's precisely why all the products in the stores say "Made In USA" instead of "Made In China". </sarcasm>

Who do you think you're trying to fool with that phony hooey about automation?

[RiflemanSharpe]

Free trade with countries that do not allow free trade is doing great harm to this country. The American worker can not only compete but most often beat any other country's worker in ROI on a level playing field. But when we allow good from a country in freely and they charge high tarrifs on our good being imported if they allow them at all. That is a recipe for destruction. We need to impose the same restrictions on a countries imports into the US as they impose on our exports into their country. We need a level playing field. If they have no tarrifs or restrictions then we don't, but if they do we mirror them on their goods. Same goes for government subsides, we should charge a tarrif equal to the subsidy on any good coming into the US tha has one.

[Recourse]

Obviously not you, because you're far too smart to be swayed by facts.

[Cronos]

And that's precisely why all the products in the stores say "Made In USA" instead of "Made In China". Who do you think you're trying to fool with that phony hooey about automation? WEll, then, Willie, how do you explain that our GDP is going up?