wildncrazyguy138

I’ve had this odd thought lately that I just want to put into the ether. And honestly, I’ve been a free trade person pretty much all my life, because I think free trade can and should empower societies to trade what they’re best at, and it has the capability to help pull billions out of poverty.

But one thing I’ve always thought was fucked about free trade is the countries that we exploit, that is, those that pay the kind of wages the US suffered through in the 1800s and early 1900s. The kind of labor that works too long and still barely struggles to survive.

What if the tariffs do balance that a bit better? What if American workers get a fair shake to do work for American consumers? What if this awful, awful dark period in our lives somehow gives the Vietnamese or Cambodian worker a better life because the US is no longer willing to buy goods from countries that exploit their workforce?

I personally don’t want to be part of the tomato problem if I can help it. This is on no way an endorsement of the current administration, but why the fuck did it have to be this administration that acted upon this? Why couldn’t it have been prior administrations over the last 30 years?

I’m assuming you already know about the Illinois district that’s shaped like a U?

Oh look, if it’s not the consequences of my own actions. Rest assured they’ll do it again next time too, because the GOP has now sufficiently bribed them.

Turns of lack of oxygen to your brain and violent head trauma is a good way to enforce your conservative views.

Sounds like a good way to lose our most prevalent posters and kill the community.