Here's something that free trade and h1b advocates do not ever want to discuss.

[AndyTiedye]

7. Trade is Good. We're Doing it Wrong

There is no other reason for global trade to exist.

Without global trade, a lot of American workers would have a hard time getting to work. What are they gonna put in their gas tank? That assumes they can even wake up in the morning without their coffee.
(The USA produces some oil and some coffee, but not nearly enough).

No nation is completely self-sufficient, so every nation needs trade.

What we don't need are the kind of trade agreements we have now, which are written by businessmen with very little input from anyone else. Trade and trade agreements can and should be a means of propagating better working conditions and more rights for workers, not the opposite. It is all in who you send to the table.

What is even worse that the trade agreements is our tax policy, which actually favors offshoring. This is protectionism-in-reverse. It is an indefensible policy, yet the Republicans have blocked every effort to change it for years, and the media refuses to allow any discussion of it.