The main problem is China not fairly pegging their currency, along with them subsudising their manufacturers. They sell some of their products less than people here can source the raw materials. It's not even close to a fair battle field. Unions are far below our political landscape that encourages these unfair rules with retail lobbyist spending millions to keep things that way.
We made Columbia a free trade partner to help combat the drugs they import. How's that going? It's never ending. And as retailers push these off shore manufacturers to move into new, lower labor cost countries, they get the rules changed to suite them. We've turned a blind eye to all of this and people here lose decent jobs ony to work at McDonalds or Walmart.
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Originally Posted by pgardn
It helps a bit that China keeps putting
cheap protein substitutes and other
toxic compounds in their products.
As alway there is a fine balance
between protectionism and free trade.
France has provided a good example
of what happens when a country tries
too hard to protect. Dont think we
want this.
Our Unions have not helped the situation
at all.
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