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To: Cringing Negativism Network
Good luck with that.

It's not "free trade" and "globalism" that's killing U.S. employment in many industry sectors. It's the shrinking size of the U.S. market compared to the rest of the world. The best you can hope for is that more production is done here to serve our domestic market, because there's no way in hell the U.S. is going to be a major source of exports of most manufactured products anytime soon.

If you want to see what the U.S. is up against, just take a look at a couple of startling graphics:

The first graphic is a map of the world.

The population of the area in the circle in the second graphic exceeds the population of the rest of the world.

These jobs haven't just been shipped to Asia because the labor is cheaper over there. They've been shipped to Asia because there are more customers over there.

11 posted on 12/31/2013 2:10:43 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("I've never seen such a conclave of minstrels in my life.")
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To: Alberta's Child; Cringing Negativism Network

Astute, but you will not make progress with CNN.


15 posted on 12/31/2013 5:28:10 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Alberta's Child
...jobs haven't just been shipped to Asia because the labor is cheaper over there. They've been shipped to Asia because there are more customers over there.

So not only has free trade shipped jobs to Asia, free trade has shipped all the customers to Asia!!

19 posted on 01/01/2014 3:21:23 AM PST by expat_panama
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