Young voters

[Johnny2X2X]

52. Disagree (kind of)

NAFTA actually helped Americans and created jobs here. Free trade agreements aren't designed to hurt workers, in fact in principle they help workers here, but the way they've been executed has hurt. They've been executed as a way to get rid of unions rather than help them by creating more highly skilled jobs here.

What happened is that Saint Ronnie decided to end the middle class by stopping the rich from paying their fair share. And then he busted the unions. We have more jobs today, but less union jobs, that's almost the entirety of why the middle class has disappeared. Republican policies.

And yes, I had friends growing up whose mother worked at a department store and earned enough to be middle class. Wages have simply not kept up with inflation. Short order cook used to be a career with a living wage.

It all rolls up into a nightmare. At the same time those free trade agreements were making it so more education would be needed, college started skyrocketing in price. At the same time union membership was declining, health care costs were skyrocketing and being passed onto workers more.

You'll notice, the jobs Biden is trying to bring back aren't necessarily general laborer jobs, they're high tech and high skilled jobs that will take an educated workforce. The question is how do we position our work force to best take advantage of those new opportunities now.