[BfloGuy]

Thanks for the free trade agreements, GOP house.

Yeah, because forcing American companies to stay here will always work out great. How about we fix what makes us uncompetitive instead of punishing Americans.

By the way. How do you explain the collapse of American heavy industry in the seventies that created the Rust Belt? That was twenty years before free trade. Could there maybe be some other causes?

[riri]

First some of them tried moving south, I think.

[algernonpj]

Yeah, because forcing American companies to stay here will always work out great. How about we fix what makes us uncompetitive instead of punishing Americans. ...

Try selling 'free trade' and 'comparative advantage' to China, Korea, Taiwan, or Japan. They'll laugh in your face.

[org.whodat]

No one forces anybody to do anything, these companies are welcome to depart, just pack up and take their families with them. I have no problem with them leaving, just as long as the managers and the owners and their families live in the same hell holes where they are getting their slave labor.

And they can sell their crap anywhere they wish, but the united states.