[Clintonfatigued]

Free trade is not free. It comes at a heavy price for those who can least afford it.

[mmercier]

>> The hidden cost of free trade

The hidden cost of voting rat and supporting every ecosocilastenvirofanatic politician that hits the ballot.

Suck it up and get used to it.

[neutrino]

Free traitin' will have a number of negative effects, not least of which is making China stronger and the U.S. weaker. Ultimately, only one nation can occupy the number one spot - and we are helping China accomplish that day by day.

True, this particular case involves sending U.S jobs to Mexico - but that makes the U.S. weaker nonetheless.

We will pay a terrible price in blood and treasure so that the free traitors can grasp themselves Michael Jackson style and simper about lower prices to consumers.

[Nathan Zachary]

a massage theripist makes much more than a factory worker. Plus it's a 'professional' career. One would think that as an improvement in the level of education and skills of the working population.

$17 plus benifits per hr for unskilled labor is the reason those jobs are leaving, not free trade. let's not forget, we have to compete with foriegn labor, free trade or not. We can't just seal the border and place tarriffs on everything comming in. Nothing will be comming in if we did that, and nothing would be going out either.

We can't sustain ourselves from within; I just don't know why some people just can't see that. We would become a soviet union, a closed society. Smart...

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

There never has been, there is not now and there never will be free trade. It is market entry control that every business seeks and they promptly enlist government to obtain it.

[satchmodog9]

Bump

[abovethefray]

No one has asked the million dollar question...what kind of masseuse?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Mr. Thomas said that for all trade adjustment program workers passing through the consortium, the average wage was $14.36 an hour before the layoffs, while after retraining it was $11.87 an hour, a decline that is common for factory workers who have to restart their lives.

Um, maybe that's because they're *starting* rather than *continuing* or *finishing* in their chosen profession? Wait a few years; wanna bet their wages go up?

[Rodney King]

In July, she started working at Venetian Salon and Spa in Hagerstown, Md.

What, no picture?

[Coleus]

bttt

[RightDemocrat]

Great article ! Free trade has been a disaster for America. We need to return to economic nationalism.

[hubbubhubbub]

We're not losing manufacturing jobs to free trade. We're losing manufacturing jobs due to:

1. Litigation
2. Regulation
3. Taxation

Capital flows to where it's treated the best!

[KingNo155]

Angel Mills was let down by the government , but not by those those who support Free Trade, she was let down by the part of government that educates children in public schools teaching them just enough to get a factory job, Let down by those in government who shut out people from doing work in their homes and backyard because they think city planning is a good idea and support industrial sites instead of backyard or basement businesses.

[Designer]

"..to become a state-licensed massage therapist."

Is this a joke? Please tell me this new career of hers is a joke.

Oh, well, perhaps manipulating skins is the general category.

[Red6]

later read

[SALChamps03]

"It's sad. It's scary. I've been a factory worker all my life, and I didn't know what I wanted to do," said Ms. Mills, a 38-year-old Williamsport resident with a teenage son.

She sat back and continued relying on an industry that was losing jobs left and right, hoping and praying that her job would be safe.....instead of preparing for the inevitable years ago by acquiring other skills. Exactly why is she surprised?

[Final Authority]

What I like about free trade and the attendant low prices is now I can hire an illegal alien to mow my lawn with the savings from buying cheaper, foreign made, leather upholstered furniture. See, it is indeed creating jobs.