Why not just make everything Americans need and use to live life in this country using domestic industries? We used to, and, matter of fact, made ourselves into a great nation and superpower. What prevents us now? 
>> Free Trade is NOT free when the playing field is unequal.<<
Well, you are never going to prevent other countries from having lower wages. So you can have varients on three choices:
1. Have trade with them with no agreement
2. Put up trade barriers to stop trade
3. Have trade with them in an agreement that forces as much of the same regulatory burden on them as there is on us.
NAFTA, President Reagan’s dream is the best deal we could get. Free Trade agreements are like democracy - for all its faults, they are still better than the alternatives.
Why not just make everything Americans need and use to live life in this country using domestic industries? We used to, and, matter of fact, made ourselves into a great nation and superpower. What prevents us now?