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"You mean, the quality of life as in what is offered by America's largest employer (outside of the government) WalMart?"

Exactly how is this a poor quality of life?

"In reality, this article demonstrates the failures of free trade, not theory, as in your reality.

Are you honestly claiming that by making products cost more, via adding a tarrif, that spending power is not reduced? If a product costs more, then we have to earn more to purchase that product, as a result quality of live is harmed, a direct harm to the citizens of the country charging the tariffs. That is not theory, regardless of your inability to understand it.

"There is a connection between free trade and employment. Protectionists argue that free trade lowers the standard of living. Low unemployment demonstrates what everyone knows already, American workers are the best in the world and are willing to work three jobs to prove it."

Unproven claims rarely are convincing.

that by making products cost more, via adding a tarrif, that spending power is not reduced? If a product costs more, then we have to earn more to purchase that product, as a result quality of live is harmed,

If tariffs protect the rights of the individual, then they do not reduce spending power, they protect it. If a tariff allows us to preserve our system of government, then how does it harm the quality of our life?

If free trade gives us cheaper goods, but forces the US to compete with slave labor, or begin to allow slave labor in order that US producers will stay in country to produce goods, how does that harm the quality of life in the US?

If free trade requires us to absorb all the "willing workers" in the Western Hemisphere, without assimilation or loyalty to our form of government, and requires us "rich countries" to pay benefits, health care and schooling costs for these "willing workers" who send all the money they earn back to their home countries, how does that harm the quality of life in the US?

If free trade requires elimination of tariffs, open borders with third world countries, forced payout of US tax money to third world countries for "capacity building" so that the infrastructure can be built up enough for American countries to move offshore and take advantage of poverty level or slave wages, does that make America a more prosperous country and more free, or less?