[dogbyte12]

Ok, so we were actually stymied from 1781-1992 before NAFTA and GATT. Good thing we got rid of that little blip in the radar of our nation's history.

My dad should be getting his pink slip in a few days, weeks, months now.

You see, when Boeing fires workers, and builds planes in China, they also fire Boeing subcontractors. My dad works at a non union shop btw, making machine tools for Boeing. Sure they aren't union workers, but they also aren't willing to work for 50 cents an hour either, go figure that.

So now that the planes are moving to China, it is 10 times easier to move the subcontracting jobs as well. He is 58, and has been a machinist for 30 years. I am sure there is a job out there for him that pays as well.

[Regulator]

I am sure there is a job out there for him that pays as well

Oh, you know, he'll just get "reskilled" as the Commerce Department geniuses call it. Creative Destruction and all that.

[1rudeboy]

No, we weren't "stymied" before NAFTA kicked-in. But then, we weren't "stymied" after it kicked-in, either. And can you point me in the direction of this Boeing plant in China that builds planes? Not components, mind you, but planes. This plant is the Moby Dick of the paleo-protectionist movement.