[SoConPubbie]

You haven’t noticed the unemployment rate?

Trying to state that the Trade Treaties, and any resultant deficits are the sole cause of unemployment is a very weak argument. It also ignores jobs created by these treaties, and there have been many jobs created that would not have happened otherwise.

At best, that kind of statement lacks a lot of context, at worst, it is dishonest.

[SoConPubbie]

Trying to state that the Trade Treaties, and any resultant deficits are the sole cause of unemployment is a very weak argument. It also ignores jobs created by these treaties, and there have been many jobs created that would not have happened otherwise.

To be clear and honest, I am sure that the trade deficits impact unemployment, however, there are a whole host of other causes that are involved in the high unemployment rate, many of them can be laid at the feet of rampant Illegal immigration and the policies of Obama.

[GraceG]

[ Trying to state that the Trade Treaties, and any resultant deficits are the sole cause of unemployment is a very weak argument. It also ignores jobs created by these treaties, and there have been many jobs created that would not have happened otherwise. ]

Unless this trade agreement has in it a mechanism to remove domestic restriction of taxes and regulation on items that we currently buy from places like china, I WILL NOT BITE.

But hey unless you can post the full text here, you arguments are just violin music in a windstorm of discontent with congress.

[odawg]

I didn’t say that free trade is the sole cause of anything. It just makes it much worse, according to all economic indicators. I suppose you have heard about Ford building a new plant in old Mexico. The reason is, of course, that labor is cheaper in Mexico. Before the free trade agreements, such as NAFTA, manufactured goods coming into the United States from Mexico had a tariff applied to them. Now Ford can take advantage of the low wages and there will be no tariff on the product that wipes out the wage savings. So Ford moves the manufacturing outside the United States, taking the jobs with them.

” and there have been many jobs created that would not have happened otherwise.”

The exact same argument is made for illegal immigration. The AFL-CIO would disagree with you. The AFL-CIO is against illegal immigration, for a change.