South Korea, Colombia, and Panama get the clean end of the stick. More of our fellow Americans . . .

[Stinky The Clown]

. . . . get to grip the shitty end of the stick.

Whoopie!

Free Trade.

We ship out jobs and money. They ship back stuff we used to make.

Yippee!

Huzzah!

Go Team!

[nc4bo]

1. You forgot one....USA!11! USA!1!!

More knives into the backs of the middle/working class.

Thanks so much everyone.

[xchrom]

2. Recommend

[Donnachaidh]

3. CHANGE we can believe in!!!!!!!

Little did we know the change would be a downgrade to third world banana republic. :shrug:

[Shagbark Hickory]

9. Technically if we were a banana republic, at least we'd have some exports.

:+

[Donnachaidh]

11. I'll bet someone has figures on sex slaves from the US

that are being exported.

[Shagbark Hickory]

13. I'm pretty sure we're importing those as well.

But I was referring to bananas. :crazy:

[ck4829]

4. And Colombia is still one of the most dangerous places on Earth for organized labor

So, how much blood and violence was used to build that product you get from Colombia that you used to make without the blood or violence?

[City Lights]

5. Oh yeah! USA so totally rulz!

:patriot:

[MannyGoldstein]

6. "Who the #@$% else ya gonna vote for, chumps?" nt

[Dragonfli]

8. You said it wrong, it's ""Who the #@$% else ya gonna vote for, #@$%*!& retards?" /nt

[Township75]

7. There is a great video posted about standing with Obama to create American Jobs.

F- that. This guy is such a phony.

[OhioChick]

10. Time to eat our peas.....if we can still afford them

:mad:

[Stinky The Clown]

12. No peas. Just one pea. That's all we can afford.

Soon enough, that will be pee. You know. Trickling down.

[pampango]

14. Free trade is not the problem or Europeans wouldn't do it. The problem is all the progressive

policies that we don't have.

When a country has regressive taxes, weakened unions, a shattered safety net, a very ineffective health care system and a deregulated corporate environment (like the US with its highly inequitable distribution of income), it seems like "free trade" is a cause of many problems.

When a country (or a continent in Europe's case) has high/progressive taxes, strong unions, an effective safety net, national health care and effective corporate regulation (resulting in a fairer society with an equitable distribution of income), it seems like "free trade" and relatively open borders are part of being a liberal democracy. In Europe it's the right (particularly the far-right) that fights against open borders and for tariffs. Liberal democracy doesn't particularly interest them.