The problem with that line of thought is that it's not only manufacturing that can be outsourced to foreigners. Wonder engineer above can also be underbid and marginalized. NEW TRAINING doesn't stop the hemmoraging of employment opportunity across all sectors of employment. America is not the toilet paper of the globe meant to wipe the shit of poverty off of the ass of foreign nations. When enough of us get tired of it you'll see that Americans, the globes most active consumer base, are not going to listen to some free market bullshit about retraining and still remain the target market for every nation that wants desperately to avoid the topic of trade deficits. Japan doesn't import as many cars as WE import japanese cars. So, fuck em. and fuck the slimy scurvy bastards that would sell their patriotism in the Great American Yard Sale.
All I can say buddy is you voted for the wrong guy. You voted for Obama and you should have voted for Pat Buchanan. He's the guy that supports your way of thinking. Obama wants to do precisely what you don't want. He has been unabashed in his support for fighting global poverty. He's allocated billions in his budget in direct transfer payments and you can bet that won't be the only way he supports the fight.
Enjoy IT!
What the fuck are you even TALKING about? It wasn't dems who were busy selling the US down the river for the last 20 fucking years. NAFTA was the product of a republican congress for crying out loud. Crying about obama, in light of the last 20 years of snake oil capitalistas, is a fucking joke. Obama will discover what is necessary to protect American economic security or he'll be a single term president. It's as simple as that. 8 more years of YOUR kind of attitude won't result in a better economy any better than what you think of Obama. Indeed, it's BECAUSE of people like you, and your sky is falling free market blah blah bullshit, that he's not out protecting AMERICAN JOBS ANYWAY. I guess your big bad degrees caused you to miss what happened the VERY FUCKING DAY Obama's BUY AMERICAN plan was announced... Again, and you say you are a lawyer? The bar must be sitting pretty low these days.
President Obama to water down 'Buy American' plan after EU trade war threat
President Obama to water down 'Buy American' plan after EU trade war threat - Times Online
You'll notice that anytime Obama does try to fix the problems, he runs into road blocks set up by the GOP.
And yes, wiki NAFTA and it was HW Bush who first cerimoniously signed NAFTA before Clinton even got into office.
And we all know that NAFTA is the GOP's baby.
But the Dems have to be careful. They can be sued if they try to undo NAFTA now. And of course he doesn't want to piss off our trading partners, but it needs to be fixed.
Right now NAFTA is great for S. America and Canada, but not so good for us. Of course they want it to stay the way it is.
And clearly so do Republicans. That they can't deny, so they just keep bringing up Clinton.
God knows how it was tweeked under GW Bush and Tom Delay to be even more unfair than it was when Clinton signed it.
And until we dig and find the proof, which we have to because the media is now owned by these pigs, they will continue to lie.