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[Free trade means there are winners and losers. Sorry to hear you are a loser, but you must change and adapt.]

How can you be so flip about the destruction of the manufacturing base of this nation and the destruction of the middle class working people?

Also, unless you work for the government, hire illegal aliens, or rob banks, your job is a potential loser.

When I hear these tales, and the cavalier statements of some, I am reminded of the old poem or story of Hitler and the Jews. How the writer didn't care because they didn't come for him, time after time, until they did come for him and there was no one left to care.

I do not believe the figures someone posted about our production, but won't argue. The sad thing about what we do still produce, it is being done by illegal aliens that pay no taxes, have to be cared for by the remaining workers.

There is no win in this for America - maybe for a few - but I just don't understand anyone being so smug about fellow citizens loosing their jobs and way of life.

But Hey!! We are destroying the unions, right? Not!!! They unions are courting the illegals right and left.

It is not "free trade" killing American business. It is a generation of CEOs who have no entrepreneurial experience and no loyalty to anyone (or any country for that matter). They are only interested in short-term profit so they can cash out their shares while the market price exceeds the real worth of the companies they have plundered. They are not capitalists; they are not producers; they are thieves who prey on a greedy public which is ignorant of any economic understanding.

This is the Esau Economy. Like Esau in the biblical story, these cowards are selling out their birthright for a “mess of pottage.” Carpe diem is their motto, but destruction and death follows in their wake. They are feasting on the carcasses of companies built by generations of investment—investment of not just money, but lifetimes of hard work. The original owners birthed the companies and nursed them into the giants of industry that this great country was once renowned for. The parasites who run them today don’t have any understanding of the businesses which they “operate.” They don’t even care.

And neither does the American public. They want a 401k plan that is secure from risk and yet pays a return equal to the riskiest derivative fund. They want cheap imports and lower taxes along with increased government spending on their pet programs. They want businesses (and those rich business owners) to pay for everything and they want to be employed at a “living wage” with regular cost-of-living increases. They want jobs, but they don’t want all those dirty industries in their back yards. They say they want to “buy American,” but they are not willing to pay one penny more to keep their neighbor employed.

It is not the “government"; it is not the evil businessmen; it is not even the wretched educational system. It is every one of us. We are enslaved to our own bellies. We have preferred safety to liberty, excess to investment and sloth to industry. We can still change course, but how will we respond? We are raising a generation who will either restore or annihilate the Republic. The choice is ours.