FREE TRADE IS A FAILURE

Twelve years ago, I wrote my congressman about the DR-CAFTA Free Trade agreement. I have always been against Free Trade as it undercuts the American workers.  The United States needs a vibrant middle class so we can always support our country and pay enough in taxes so that the United States can always support Democratic forms of government throughout the world.  Without that, the last bastion of freedom is gone.

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Twelve years ago, I was writing to a Republican Congressman as a Democrat.  The Republicans were supporting the Free Trade agreements, and what these Free Trade Agreements do is allow Fat Cat traders and conglomerate corporations profit on manufacturing no matter where it is at by shifting plants to the cheapest labor base possible.  In one word, this can be summed up as "globalism."  Now, I am a Republican and I am finding that I have to make the same reasoning when trying to convince Democrats that globalism is wrong.

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Notice what Pete Hoekstra says in the picture below:

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"Twenty years ago, The United State stood with the people of Central America in one of the Seminal struggles of the Cold War.  Together, we defeated the insurgencies in El Salvador and Guatemala, protected Honduras and Costa Rica from the predatory Sandinista regime in Nicaragua and finally drove the Sandinistas from power through the ballot box.  We also lowered American tariffs. opening the door for exports from Central America to the United States."