Hillary Clinton could become president on the issue.
When YOU are unemployed, it's the economy and it's personal at election time.
Markets and remorseless greed are definitely efficient. They can destroy the standard of living of a great nation in a heartbeat. You are watching it. It's not free trade. It's unfair trade. A dictatorship (China) uses slave and prison labor with no employee safety or exploitation protections to compete against America, where people have choices and labor safety regulations.
The Chinese aren't better workers than Americans. They simply work for almost nothing. They have to. The Chinese standard of living is not rising to ours. Ours is falling to theirs.
We are in a race to the bottom. China keeps making stuff cheaper and Americans will have less money with which to buy it because all of our jobs were sent to China. At some point Wal-Mart will sell everything for a nickel and nobody in America will have a nickel.
Free market cheerleaders are boasting "progress" in global economics while millions of unemployed Americans will soon be ready to take to the streets and tear down the system that caused this to happen to the greatest country on earth.
There will be no need to send a child to college. There will be no job for the graduate.
Ross Perot correctly predicted this. All of this has a sound - a giant, sucking sound. It's gonna get ugly.
Why, certainly. This mercantilist philosophy has produced benefits for England which cannot be measured....except in the Socialist State which the Mercantilists forced.
Not too surprising, is it, that England's middle class has shrunk considerably, except for the bankers...