So it turns out that the free trade our leaders (Repub and Dem alike) have been selling us for the last thirty years isn't so FREE after all.

You know you look at the so-called free trade deals and you find things like the article above mentioned. Is it FREE trade when the Euro subsidize their exports to us while TAXING our exports to them? Is it free trade when for the last forty years our auto market has been wide open to the Japanese while their auto market has been virtually SHUT to us? Is it free trade when we allow the chinese to use SLAVE LABOR meanwhile back in the states we regulate the shit out of domestic manufacturers?

You know I try to steer clear of conspiracy theories but there is NO WAY you will ever convince me that our "trade negotiators" didn't KNOW the disastrous nature of the agreements they were pushing. Ah, but wilthrill THEIR BOSSES made out like bandits even if they did screw the rest of us.

We have problems that are ALL OUR OWN to solve (immigration, spending,taxes, unfunded liabilities like Social Security etc). We also have problems, global in scale, created by our IDIOTIC trade policy (best summed up as "I bend over you fuck me") that also need solutions.

And we have a bunch of so-called leaders who won't solve them!!!