Fuck free trade. It only helps when all countries have similar environmental, labor, and tax laws. Even if there is a net gain from it I think it's still bullshit. Sure consumers get cheaper goods but other people lose their jobs. Why should people lose their jobs so that some other bumfuck can afford a 60 inch TV instead of a 30 inch one. We need to reevaluate the value of having a job relative to having cheaper goods because right now it ain't fucking right
We shouldn't trade with anybody unless they have similar environmental, labor, and tax laws to ours (or ours to theirs). fair trade or nothing baby. The unemployment situation in this country is ridiculous and something needs to be done. We need to elect real democrats who can stand up to the conservative economist's misguided ideology and fight for fair trade and a strong industrial policy