[Steve_Seattle]

"I don’t care what your BS “free trade” theory is and neither do the people, many of whom were base republican voters, that are losing everything they had worked for, went to school for, sweated for, fought in wars for, because some poor sap in India is willing to do the job for starvation wages or a slave laborer in the workers paradise of Red China has a gun to his head held there by the communist government and Wal-Mart!!"

I recall talking to Dems in the 1990's who claimed that the economic boom was a direct result of Clintin signing NAFTA. So does free trade help or hurt the American economy? You talk as if America has become a wasteland of poverty and unemployment, but it looks to me pretty much the same that it did 20 years ago.

[going hot]

but it looks to me pretty much the same that it did 20 years

Not only that, but I remember the same lamentations about jobs being lost overseas and the economy will be in ruination blah blah if the repubs gain the presidency mouthed by carter 24 years ago and Mondale 20 years ago. Seems they were slightly off.