Sing it loud, PROTECTIONIST and proud.
What has free trade given America but a monster trade deficit, lost manufacturing jobs, a skyrocketing rise in low paying service jobs, and barely a HANDFUL of good paying jobs?
We've lost far more jobs than we've gained from this globalism bullshit, and it's apparent across America that we're not going to keep taking this lying down.
Tariffs don't go far enough. We need embargoes.
Prices will go up, so fucking what. If you have no job how are you going to afford a cheap Chinese TV? Prices will go up when foreign wages go up. In fact, the FREE TRADERS have fought to keep foreign wages down. Look at how the US Government fought wage increases in Haiti, where a lot of clothes are made. That's the side of globalism that no one wants to talk about. Our 'right' to cheaper prices comes at the expense of everyone else. Globalism is needed to make the third world a better place? Bull crap. Ask the folks who live in Linfeng, China, or the cage people in Hong Kong, how that's going.
Embargoes now, especially against nations that exploit their workers and pollute the hell out of their environment. Unless we want cheap TVs at the cost of ruining other nations' environments and keeping their people poor.
China will want access to our market. We're 20% of their exports, and they're an EXPORT-DEPENDENT economy. They'll clean up their act or they'll go bust.
Target nations that fuck over their workers and pollute their environment to get a trade advantage over us... and lock them out. Make them clean up their act.
Unless we want to continue to be responsible for this...
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Enough is enough. We're protectionists, dammit. We protect our own, because nobody else is going to take care of our workers. Globalism locks Americans out of the global labor market, and even our own market, too. That discrimination against Americans must end. Now.
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