The Military ruined this country

[liberalmike27]

56. This is the Reason

I say MSNBC, even Current TV to some extent isn't really liberal. They are the liberal representation of the corporate media. But liberal? Nope!

Free Trade has been awful. Yes, we have gotten cheap stereos, and clothes. The damage it's done is phenomenal.

The obvious is job-losses, of course. Less obvious, but completely connected is the effect of the job losses on tax collection. We've lost about 30 million jobs, and if you do the calculation of all taxes lost, you'll come up with about one Trillion a year in lost revenues.

So, see a story about a city, or state, or even the federal government struggling?--think free trade. Free trade did that, free trade destroyed our tax base.

Add to that, without the good jobs, without the contributions to labor, and then from labor to politicians, more Republicans were elected, and Democrats became more con-servative. This resulted in nearly 35 years of low, to no wage growth. So people who might have paid more taxes because of the natural growth of wages, pay less now.

Republicans bought up and corrupted the media in their favor, and they bought up Republicans and Democrats too, along with about 30 think-tanks they use to disseminate information into society.

And there is the increased spending every City and State are having to shoulder because of increased crime, due to all of this.

To fix it? The first thing is to realize what a complete and rounded problem it has been, to spread the thought around more on social media, and hopefully try to elect politicians who actually know how godawful it's been to the U.S.'s employment and tax base. Keep pointing out, as you have, that our media isn't liberal at all in this way, and that it has been a terrible thing, even to non-union jobs that by now would probably be up to $13 an hour had these jobs not been exported. And it was a choice. It wasn't inevitable, it wasn't unstoppable, it was a choice, by our government.

And now, it's folding in on itself, it's collapsing everything. We add tariffs, make product cheaper to produce here, and other countries will then have to raise their salaries to create some demand for the products they produce in their own country, rather than mostly supplying us with product. Demand is the key.