I wish issues would be discussed more too but there is very little likelihood of that happening during a Presidential election in 2016
Why Trump Is Winning: The Hypocrisy — And Disaster — Of American Trade Policy
— by Eamonn Fingleton at forbes.com
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3409806/posts
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Now finally after Donald Trump’s apotheosis, Americans are beginning to learn the truth. Factory workers in the old Soviet Union had a cynical joke: ‘We pretend to work. They [the bosses] pretend to pay us.’
Similar logic applies in the world trading system. Washington pretends to write the rules; other nations pretend to obey them. For two generations already, increasingly pathetic American trade officials have turned a blind eye to the blatant barriers facing American exports in key foreign markets.
The result has been a tragic roll-call of factory closures in the American heartland. The problem with free trade is... [snip]