| TheLastStarFighter said: THAT is essentially the problem. Large corporations are making a lot of money off cheap labour in foreign countries. Every political candidate depends on some level of corporate backing. So no candidate will curb free trade in anyway. Free trade is good if it's a level playing field. When some countries have slave labour, it's not level. The problem is these US corporations are being short-sighted. By moving manufacturing jobs to foreign countries, there is no one in your home market to buy your product. That is slowly the way the western countries are moving. |
I think there's another problem here; the U.S. dollar. If any country printed the same amount of money as the U.S. government has and accumulate the amount of debt that that's been accumulated, prices of goods would be ridiculously high and the dollar would devalue to crap. This hasn't happened yet; so corporations keep on doing what they want. There's no threat to them and politicians keep on bending over to them.
