I'm a free market capitalist. Right there, Trump is a non-starter
Who was the last viable presidential candidate that you did endorse?
What is so great about free trade? A country whose workforce averages $25 per hour cannot fairly compete with a country whose workforce averages $5 per hour.
Fair trade is what we need...not free trade.
Nope.
A shirt should not be made by a $25/hour worker. Shirt making is not a $25/hour skill.
All those jobs SHOULD be done overseas so that those people in those hellholes can rise out of poverty.
America needs to maintain our innovative edge, not try to keep old, low tech jobs. We need to train our workforce and our children for the jobs of tomorrow, not the jobs of yesterday.
We are actually manufacturing more goods than we ever have before, you know.
It's not our job to lift the poor in overseas hellholes out of poverty...it's out job to lift the poor in hellholes HERE out of poverty. Perhaps you haven't been to Cleveland, or St. Louis, or Dallas or Birmingham lately...but I have. THOSE are the people who need jobs.
The huge manufacturing facility near me closed five years ago, the building sits empty. Not only are the employees of the only manufacturing plant in town all unemployed, it damn near killed the whole town. The town alert system still rings at 6 am, noon, one pm and 5pm to signal shifts that no longer muster at the plant...five years later.
THOSE folks would REJOICE in the streets if a manufacturer moved back to town, I mean literal rejoicing in the streets.
You sir are totally out of touch with that American reality.