Originally Posted by DaddyHalbucks

You know nothing of economics. Free trade agreements are wonderful because they allow the USA to export low paying jobs and import higher paying skilled jobs. The problem is the unions and the USA laborers are fat and lazy and do not want to upgrade their skills to suit. The unionists have been coddled for so long that they have an entitlement complex. They do not want to be paid on merit, they want to be paid for seniority. They do not want to compete, they want protected markets. And, most amazingly, these same nut cases want to harbor illegal aliens --the very people who take away the unskilled jobs which puts greater pressure on their own core constituency. Real life is far stranger than fiction!