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Call me ignorant, i don’t care, call me a protectionist, I don’t care.

I believe in free trade... ONLY Between countries that have the following THREE things in common: Economic Development Level, Social/cultural Development level, and Personal Freedom/liberty level.

We CAN trade Freely with countries like Canada. the UK, Japan, South Korea, and Israel.

We CANNOT trade freely with countries like China, India, Russia, and Saudi Arabia.

Seems to me a fourth condition must be shared in common between countries that engage in “free trade” : Equal amounts of labor/union laws and regulations (and equal enforcement of same)

Actually I’d argue that’s the only thing that needs to be kept in common. Because that’s really the only thing that drives the cost of products ultimately anyway. In today’s economy. Which is our problem.

We are really the only country that has both a mighty economy and strict labor laws and regulations. This latter fact is being exploited by the less scrupulous to weaken and drain the former fact. It’s indeed what causes much of the trade disparity we see today. It’s pretty hard to compete with another country that produces a widget for 10% of the cost because they are willing to let their kids work in sweatshops 7 days a week.

And you can’t put “tarrifs” on that either, because they will just sell their widgets to other unscrupulous countries (or corporations really). The only way to level the playing field is to level the amount of labor regulation there is globally.

Ideally to a level lower than what we have here. God knows an autoworker doesn’t need free healthcare for life AND a 90k+ salary AND paid vacation of more than 2 weeks a year on top of sick leave that never expires. Yeah, I think “labor” can give a little in this drive to compete. It’s way out of control. On top of all the ca$h the labor bosses and race hustlers bring in refunding the Democrat machine.

But, Good luck doing that. It ain’t gonna happen. So the ones who have no compunction about working children to death will keep stealing the jobs we can never create because of our own oppressive labor laws, laws that go entirely too far to “protect the working man”. They only end up protecting the rich in charge of the entire shakedown enterprise known as the “union” and their federal allies in the Department of Labor.

A moral outrage on both sides of the economic spectrum with no solution. None, and only one outcome: eventual economic collapse.

Have a nice day!