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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cloudsweeper99, post: 1441933, member: 3011&quot;]Bu way of full disclosure, I am not an advocate of global free trade.&nbsp; Sometimes the assets and jobs go away - permanently - like the textile industry.&nbsp; Thje US now has a permanent underclass that formerly worked in a variety of industries that are dead in America.&nbsp; I laugh at the people who see high wage, high benefit jobs as something to get rid of.&nbsp; In saner times, the US used wage equalization tariffs to protect the high and rising standard of living of its citizens.&nbsp; Now, corporations rule and are moving the nation toward subsistence level jobs to maximize corporate profits.&nbsp; I know it is popular to believe that lower consumer prices are the ONLY economic indicator that matters.&nbsp; But people forget that you can&#039;t have consumers without producers.&nbsp; And consumers are also the same people earning the high wages with high benefits that are supposedly bad for the nation.&nbsp; There is no way to tell, of course, but Alexander Hamilton would probably have protected the US auto industry as strategic, and no bailout would have been needed.&nbsp; Since you are financially secure, it may be difficult for you to see it that way.&nbsp; But the view from the bottom of society is that capitalism isn&#039;t working for them, and if the elite don&#039;t start paying attention to the needs of these folks, it might bring down the whole system with or without bailouts.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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