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In reply to the discussion: Did you hear Crystal Ball's rant on the Cycle asking Hillary not to run? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)And when you balance the benefits of international trade against the losses, you see that working Americans lose. Products are cheaper than prior to "free" trade, but they are also a lot shoddier, a lot shoddier, not well made and of cheaper materials than the old-fashioned made-in-America products. The rich have made out like bandits buying cheap from Third World economies and selling expensive in the US. But working people have watched their jobs disappear into poor countries to be done by close-to-slave laborers at wages against which working Americans cannot compete. You can't draw water from the free community well in an American city. You have to pay your water bill. Americans cannot work for what the lowest cast of Indians work for in India. The number of homeless people has increased in the US. Millions of Americans lost their homes and went into bankruptcy since 2008. Hillary cannot say anything helpful and be believed to those people. Hillary is stuck with the legacy of Bill Clinton. We all loved him when he was president, but since that time, we realize that a number of the bills he signed sold out middle America. Elizabeth Warren is speaking to the issues that are on Americans' minds today. That is why she is the candidate for 2016, not Hillary Clinton.