$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...
OF course we could...