The U.S. is rendered noncompetitive as the middle-class jobs we once depended on are sent overseas, further adding to the unemployment rate.
Causing our standard of living to dramatically decrease.
This is not conjecture—it is inevitable and it is happening now! Our financial standing is reflected in our consistent balance-of-trade deficit, which has no chance of turning positive under our current “free trade” agreements. The U.S. has not had a trade surplus in decades!
The effects of “free trade” have rippled through our economy, eliminating our good, middle-class jobs and leaving us with a service (servant) economy. These new service jobs cannot support the lifestyle Americans have come to expect. As a result we are saddled with debts that we cannot possibly repay under current policies.
We cannot rectify this situation as long as we have “free trade.” These policies have drained our resources and left us defenseless against a world poised to take over the industries the United States once dominated. On top of our damaging free trade policies, our membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) has stripped us of our right to manage our own trade relations.
The WTO oversees and adjudicates all of our disputes related to international trade, despite the fact that the panels are made up of foreign bodies who may not have our best interests at heart. The WTO has been disastrous for us, as we lose 9 out of 10 cases brought against us. How can we hope to succeed when foreign interests are dictating how we manage our economy?
America faces a bleak future if we continue down this path. We need to create real wealth again. Our leaders need to act to make this happen. We must stop all “free trade” agreements and rid ourselves of our damaging ties to the WTO, and we must act quickly to avoid total economic devastation.
Take this message to your congressional representatives and ask them specifically what they will do to solve this problem. Send it to your neighbors, your mayor, your governor, and let them know that this issue is important to you, and it should be important to them too, because it affects their communities and their country. This issue has done too much damage for good citizens to sit idle and let it continue.