[entropy12]

Barbra Streisand. Nothing is crushing USA more than hemorrhaging $800,000,000,000 EVERY YEAR in trade deficits.

That is the chief reason why middle class manufacturing jobs have gone to foreign countries.

What is urgently needed is fair trade, balanced trade. If that requires tariffs, impose tariffs.

I would rather get my middle class manufacturing full time job back, than working in 2 part time jobs with no health insurance and no retirement benefits. I much prefer to pay more for American made stuff with my higher earnings than be forced to buy cheap stuff at Walmart.

[1rudeboy]

How much do more do you expect me to pay the federal government so that you can find this hypothetical job (that you probably wouldn’t take even if it was offered to you)?

[Alberta's Child]

Those jobs are never coming back. Even if we sealed the border and prohibited the import of any products from outside the country, we're not likely to get back more than 5% of the jobs we allegedly "lost" to these foreign countries.

I would rather get my middle class manufacturing full time job back, than working in 2 part time jobs with no health insurance and no retirement benefits.

I would love to have my grandfather's lifetime employment at a major U.S. manufacturer, but I would never want to have his standard of living.