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In reply to the discussion: Free Trade- just what can we live without? [View all]larkrake
(1,674 posts)giving up our foundation of being "great" and "empathetic" and the pillar of hope?
I know alot of people in the US who have been forced back to one TV, one phone, selective diets and driving vs flying. Tho I'm not proposing huge tariffs, fair trade isnt costly to corporations. When they spend less outsourcing, they dont lower prices for Americans, they quadruple it.
I believe US products are currently tariffed. As far as Massive inflation, we already have that, as well as massive unemployment- not on the scale that you mean, but with Clinton or Trump, it will get worse rapidly. I dont see jobs as we lose more and more manufacturing, I see jobs in infrastructure ( temporary), I see our kids going to Europe to get free College, and jobs. They wont return. If we lose our young, there is no future in America. There is no future offered our graduates today
The picture you paint has no solution. Shall we resume being apathetic? Let Dispair consume opportunity?
These new trade deals involve alot more than trade, it gives licence to destroy the world, serfdom, all the ***archys you can label it. Deregulation, destruction of air, trees, oceans, water, Corporate rule over governments, already here.