We need to be more concerned with ourselves or we’re going be soon become a developing nation.
Let me add that I would prefer trade than welfare. At least we get something in return.
Stop giving money as aid. Give countries US autos, electronics, appliances, and bring them into the consumer culture - economy. Weapons to our allies, etc. Buying friends doesn’t work. Now let’s get manufacturing back to the US!
The problem is that what this writer and politicians like to call ‘trade’ is actually trading US manufacturing plants, jobs and technology for cheap labor and lax regulation in Third World nations, to produce products to be shipped back to the US with little or no tariff.
We’re trading so much that our annual trade deficit will soon reach a trillion dollars, and every new ‘trade’ agreement adds to that.
It’s great to trade for products, raw materials and agricultural items unique to a particular nation, but that’s not this so-called trade is all about.
Then there is the "Free Trade" of the H1B visa scam.
Americans displaced deliberately by US Government/Corporate collusion through importing foreigners to take the place of working Americans. Supposedly because there aren't enough Americans to do the "intellectually demanding" tech jobs.
"Free Trade" is an outright betrayal of Americans!! It is the US Government (Dems & Republicans) & the Corporate world saying "FU American! We going to starve you to extinction!"
Hah !
The global elite that run the UK and America don’t want to “help” “developing” nations !
What a crock !
For centuries they’ve just been using and trashing them and the process continues.
Yet they constantly put articles in the “press” (new world order’s propaganda machine) about “helping” developing countries.
Oy vey.
I forget who said it..... But we rather have goods crossing the borders than soldiers....
Restrictive trade practices leads to war....