There are three categories:
1) those who benefit from free-trade;
2) those who are harmed by free-trade; and,
3) those who are essentially insulated from free-trade.
Don’t confuse category three (i.e., government workers and the service economy) with category one.
In category one are financial services, the info-tech industries, high-wage manufacturing (aircraft, industrial vehicles and equipment), agriculture, and our nation’s leading hospitals and universities. These are our sectors that sell goods and services to foreignors.
Another comment: I don’t know why this poll focuses on free-trade. Lower taxes, social securitiy privatization, education vouchers, medical savings accounts, and I can go on, in other words, support for the entire traditional Republican economic program is down.
Today, “conservative” means little more than being for war and against immigration.
Oh, and today, Republicans are losing elections.
I hope you guys are happy with socialism after Hillary is President and the Democrats have 60 votes in the U.S. Senate.
Your categories are not mutually exclusive. They are more like Venn diagrams, because everyone falls into category one. There may be some people that are also in category two, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t also reap benefits from free trade, too.
>> Don’t confuse category three (i.e., government workers and the service economy) with category one.
Trust me, I don’t.
I can’t figure out why you are lecturing me on that point. But I will admit that your lecture was a good one!