Unfair Trade: 10 Questions About Our Globalized Economy That Neither Conservative Or Liberal Supporters Of Current U.S. Trade Policies Can Answer
Well, I have a challenge for advocates of current U.S. trade policies.
I challenge you to answer the following 10 questions about our globalized economy. Please answer these questions and tell me why I am wrong....
#1 How can trade be considered "fair" when other major exporting nations openly manipulate their currencies, provide massive subsidies for their national industries and erect massive tariffs against many U.S. goods while we allow them to wipe out many of our domestic industries by flooding our shores with endless amounts of cheap products?
#2 How is it possible that it is good for American workers to be merged into a global labor pool where they must compete for jobs with workers on the other side of the globe that make less than ten percent of what an average American worker makes?
#3 As millions of manufacturing jobs continue to flow to where "labor is cheaper", can you please explain how in the world we are going to provide nearly enough jobs for blue collar American workers?
#4 If there are not nearly enough jobs for everyone, then millions upon millions of Americans will not be able to take care of themselves. We simply are not going to let them starve to death in the streets. Already, over 41 million Americans are on food stamps. One way or another we are going to pay to take care of American workers. Either we are going to give them jobs or we are going to give them welfare. Are you willing to have your taxes raised substantially to pay for all of the welfare cases that "free trade" is creating?
#5 As U.S. workers are merged into the new global labor pool, can you please explain how wages will not be forced down and the standard of living for average, hard-working Americans will not diminish substantially?
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http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/unfair-trade-10-questions-about-our-globalized-economy-that-neither-conservative-or-liberal-supporters-of-current-u-s-trade-policies-can-answer
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