What mistake is that? Why should the US create a level playing field for foreign companies to compete against US companies in US markets?
Foreign companies already have huge advantages over US companies, in that they can get dirt cheap labor and raw materials and foreign government subsidies. They are strong enough to destroy, and they have destroyed, many American companies.
So, pray tell, what do Americans get from this deal? Unemployment? A shrinking economy? Huge debt? What?
Tell me how bad things would be here if we erected potent trade barriers to these sharks. Would we have to open mines, make automobiles and computers, pay high wages because of high employment? Tell me about it.
Raising the price for US consumers is NOT a level playing field.
Foreign companies already have huge advantages over US companies, in that they can get dirt cheap labor and raw materials and foreign government subsidies.
It must me be magic then that our economy has remained strong relative to most nations.
Making the US less economic than other nations is not a way to keep us healthy. It would cost us jobs and lower our standard of living.
If these traitors were around in the 1940's we'd be speaking German on the east coast and Japanese onthe West coast.