Obviously you didn't get what I was trying to say. Without trade dollars are pretty useless.
There's one thing that anti free traders can't explain, although they try toss out this doom and gloom stuff all the time.
If it's been so bad since we've had NAFTA over the last 20 years, why has our economy done so well over all?
To make things, you need cheap raw materials to make value added products to ship back out. Free trade works both ways.
And who wants to work labor jobs all their lives anyway? Those days are long gone, and with all this global warming crap, intense industrial activity will continue to drop off. Educate yourself and work in the corporate world. Be skilled, be a professional in one of the many fields in high demand. manufacturing jobs, unskilled labor will never return to the levels they once were.