It is also proving to be a litmus test of those who are corrupt among our goverment, who form unholy alliances with sleazy anti-American profiteers and their hangers-on...who nearly jammed through their Amnesty twice, and are trying again with the NIGHTMARE [DREAM] Act.
Some free trade. Its just labor arbitrage...which is NOT free trade. Core Inflation (wages) trailing drastically behind Real Inflation (Original CPI Consumer Price basket goods) demonstrates the "Iron Law Of Wages" is not obsoleted despite contrarian crap out of Cato and its apologists. It is precisely as David Ricardo predicted, labor is treated as a commodity across borders...which the Globalists seek to erase...to the cost of the majority U.S. wage-earning citizens. Even the air-heads in the CFR are recognizing it...but for purely perverse reasons...regarding it as unanticipated political fallout that needs to be ameliorated so that their program can go forward unchecked...without ever re-examining their other first premises to see if they were equally as flawed.
It is a slow-motion destruction of the U.S. industrial core and ultimately the end of the U.S. middle class which made that core, invented virtually everything and perfected the most efficient manufacturing process ever seen on the planet...and were the bedrock of the nation's self-rule and formed the greatest nation on earth.