Free Trade: the Elephant In the Room
Meria HellerBah to Obama's "jobs bill", it's time to pull out of the free trade agreements and bring our jobs back!
Bah to Obama's "jobs bill", it's time to pull out of the free trade agreements and bring our jobs back!
Welcome to FP, Meria. I see you need a little help with fact-check. Hopefully, these will get you started:
"We don't make anything anymore": according to the US Manufacturing Output index, US manufactures are almost 5 times more productive than in 1950 and (eyeballing the chart) 50% more productive than in 1996 (NAFTA).
http://www.economagic.com/em-cgi/charter.exe/blsin/inu0002us0+1950+2010+0+0+0+290+545++0
"We don't grow anything anymore": US farm output is 158% greater than in 1948 and 13% higher than 1996.
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Data/AgProductivity/
"We don't invent anything anymore": US patents granted in 2009 are almost 4 times greater than in 1963, and 1.6 times greater than 1996.
http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/us_stat.htm
I hope you can make use of some facts and hope you get over that collectivism problem.