our industries should go ahead and pay the restrictive tariffs that other nations impose without protest;
we should force our over-taxed and over-regulated industries to compete - without benefit of some combination of tax relief and/or tariffs - with heavily subsidized foreign competition that can hire labor at a fraction of US labor costs;
that because of the cheap working conditions, we should allow America's manufacturing base to move offshore, thereby adding to the unemployment rolls here;
simply accept that since the erosion of American manufacturing is a by-product of "free trade", it's ok (i.e., even though noone will suggest whether, how or why it's a good thing, hey, it's "free trade", so it can't be bad);
and that we should ignore approximately 180 years of American history and tradition and adopt a system that both Adam Smith and Karl Marx predicted would destroy the West (which is why the former opposed free trade, and the latter, wanting to see the West destroy itself, encouraged the US and Britain to pursue it).
Did I sum up the free trade position correctly?
It's funny how much faith you paleos put in Karl Marx and his economic theories. If Karl Marx was in favor of something economically, don't you think to most people that would be a great signal to do the opposite? The paleos and the Marxists (i.e. AFL-CIO)... marching hand in hand yet again.