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"Isn't fighting for truly free trade "getting tough"?"

No, it's the ranting of a mindless idiot. The concept of "free trade" is that which profits off of the back of the American employer or employee. What the hell do you think the UN, Kyoto and the Democratic party are? If you think "free trade" will exist in our lifetime, under the concept of the left, then you are correct. If you think FAIR TRADE will, not in my life time. We've been sold out. But don't tell me. Go to Wilson, NC, San Jose, CA, or Brownsville, TX. Tell the poor SOBs who live there TO THEIR FACE that you advocate these policies. When they take you out of the hospital in one of those towns, come back to us and let us know what you think.

When we enacted the concepts of "free trade" we did nothing, absolutely nothing to let our industries have a level playing field. Did we reduce regulations? No, we increased them. Were there tax incentives for domestic producers? No, we gave incentives to relocate manufacturing overseas under the guise of the Import-Export Bank. I'm sick and tired of the people on this board proclaiming free trade instead of FAIR TRADE. 80 years ago, the income tax was 1% and the government funded off of the import tariffs. No we have sold our souls and stripped our entreprenuers of the ability to compete domestically because of federal, state and local taxes and regulation. If that is your idea of "free trade" then you are a moron. Just like the 466 idiots who run our nation in D.C.

If that is your idea of "free trade" then you are a moron.

I never said what my idea of free trade was, and said nothing in which you could infer it was similar to what you listed. I said we needed to "fight for free trade" implying that it was not something we had attained yet.
Sad stories are sad, whether in Brownsville or Bombay. Don't let that fool you into thinking the government can fix this with regulation.