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You're right!

Those tariffs protected american workers and encouraged corporate america to invest it's capital dollars that came from american workers buying their products, back into their own country to create more jobs. We have lost most of the blue collar jobs and the white collar jobs are next.

We expect our citizens to be loyal to our country. We should expect no less of corporate america. We condem americans for buying chinese products with their money but applaud corporations in the name of free trade for investing it's billions of american capital dollars in the same country, creating a much richer enemy.

Of course you'll hear the same BS that the blue collar workers heard. That you can compete with anyone. You can, if you give up your standard of living and live like they do.There is no such thing as free trade. Someone has to pay and so far it has been the american worker and sooner or later so will our country and everyone in it including the politicans and corporate America. Your money is where your allegence is.

Henry Ford said it best when critized by other industial leaders for the higher wage he paid his workers. He said " I want my workers to be able to buy the product they are making". He was smart enough to know that his workers where his customers.

That's actually a very misunderstood notion. The USA did not "get rich" in that period by assessing tariffs on imports -- it got rich by

Taking advantage of an "accident of history" (the settlement of the frontier) that allowed us to secure land and resources at costs far below what First World nations would have had to pay.

The 1930s also happened to be the first time in history that the average American had a standard of living that exceeded the standard of living of someone living in advanced European countries like Britain and Germany. the average American had a lower standard of living than the
average resident of these countries well into the 20th century. In fact, the U.S. was still looked upon as an agrarian nation almost until the time of World War II.

Tariffs would ruin us and reduce us to the way we were in the 1700s. It smacks of recedevism, protectionism like the commies do in North Korea or Russia.