25% of our workforce sitting idle.
25% of our workforce making about half what they were five years ago.
And your snot-nosed focus remains the big bad protectionists?
Can you tell me what protectionist policies have over-ridden the Free Trade group’s policies in the last 20 years? I’d be curious to hear how Protectionists have been the biggest threat to our nation during that period.
If you think we blocked China’s influence on our manufacturing just say so.
If you think we forced large tariffs just say so.
If you think we over-powered cheap labor from Mexico, just say so.
If you think massive raises in the private sector have really screwed us in the last decade, just say so.
If you think our workers are being paid to much, because they have demanded too much in the last twenty years, just say so. And if you do, please explain the carnage on 50% of our workforce while you’re at it.
If you think Protectionists caused us to lose a lot of national security secrets, just say so.
If you think Protectionists caused us to lose a lot of technology secrets, just say so.
Failing any of this, please refrain from opening that yap of yours and proving what a complete idiot you are over and over and over and over again.
25% of our workforce making about half what they were five years ago.
Nothing that higher taxes and bigger government can't fix.
It is truly a wonder when people demand that we create even bigger government to resolve the messes made by government in the first place. And make no mistake, the fault of the problems on your list fall squarely at the feet of government. To blame these things on too much freedom is laughable.
RE: “25% of our workforce sitting idle. 25% of our workforce making about half what they were five years ago.”
The two problems you mention above are also caused by our immigration policy, not just by Free Trade policy.
In 2013:
1 million new USA citizens were imported - most of them with limited skills and limited education.
500,000 new Green Cards were issued - most of them for people who will earn below the median income.
750,000 work visas were issued or renewed - many of them for jobs that will compete directly against new American college grads, and against middle aged American technology workers.