It's not a question of blaming trade deals OR blaming automation.

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14. At the same time those jobs were supposedly shipped overseas, Honda, Toyota, Siemens, BMW, etc.,

opened plants here. Sorry, but you can't just look at one tiny area to get the economic impact. I get the non-economic impact to those displaced is catastrophic, but millions of people retrain and move to new locations every year. Where I spent a lot of time as a youth was largely textiles plants. They are rotting building now. On the other hand, people can by underwear at 1/3 the cost of something made here.

Do you have something against poor people in third world countries? Lots of isolationists, Nationalists, etc., treat them like scabs.

Personally I believe everyone on earth deserves a chance to share in the wealth. Some poor peasant who goes from 50 cents a day in a rice paddy is plenty happy making $0.35 an hour while they learn a new skill that gives them a future. If they weren't happy, they'd stay in the rice paddy. To the extent a corporation makes extra money by moving production overseas, there should be a tax on profits to offset that and to be spent on social issues here.