[Nathan Zachary]

There's one thing that anti free traders can't explain, although they try toss out this doom and gloom stuff all the time.
If it's been so bad since we've had NAFTA over the last 20 years, why has our economy done so well over all?
To make things, you need cheap raw materials to make value added products to ship back out. Free trade works both ways.
And who wants to work labor jobs all their lives anyway? Those days are long gone, and with all this global warming crap, intense industrial activity will continue to drop off. Educate yourself and work in the corporate world. Be skilled, be a professional in one of the many fields in high demand. manufacturing jobs, unskilled labor will never return to the levels they once were.

[bkepley]

Protectionism and wage/price controls are equally worthy in my opinion.

[Ninian Dryhope]

"If it's been so bad since we've had NAFTA over the last 20 years, why has our economy done so well over all?"

I see no one has answered you incisive question, which goes right to the heart of the matter. They would rather quibble and invent new economic models where up is down and down is up.

[redgolum]

Those days are long gone, and with all this global warming crap, intense industrial activity will continue to drop off.

Just think about that for a second. What good will a professional accountant do to you in a world where most of your basic goods will be homemade? If you "deindustrialize", you become dependent on other industrialized nations. If we all deindustrialize, then we go back to the middle ages.

[nyconse]

They are now exporting white collar jobs...!