Is the free trade hurting blue collar workers?

does in india

Same everywhere. Corporations will save money any way they are allowed to. The only solution is to retrain workers to perform the jobs that are highly paid like tech and science.

Of course we live in a global economy. But we did in 1970 too. It is not about isolationism but Russia proved several times over that with countries and populations our size that is actually possible. That being said the tariff thing is just doing what every other successful economy is doing and it is why they are successful and why Canada and the US used to be successful past tense. Also credit is not wealth my friend. Just because you can go into debt to buy something does not make you wealthy. You seem to be missing that these free trade agreements are a key component in creating the very inequality you speak off. It has gotten so bad that US and other first world companies are not only contracting jobs like call center work to India but those Indian companies are sub contracting the work back to "right to work for less states" because it has gotten to the point that the Indian middle class will no longer work for the poverty wages that desperate Americans will. The reason your wages are going down is because these agreements force us to "compete" with 3rd world workforces to the detriment of everyone except the capitalist. So this is not at all rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. The wealth inequality is no accident and it is not coming out of nowhere.

The only people who benefit from free trade are the capitalist class.

In the US, it's resulted in high-paying, union manufacturing jobs being outsourced to other countries. On the positive side, we have relatively cheap, high quality goods.

Trump's proposal to place a tariff on Chinese goods is idiotic. It would only raise prices and take years for manufacturing to return here if it happened at all.

@shoes Returning to the economic policies that worked for the US from th 1790s till the Reagan administration is idiotic? The reason why the US and Canada have been getting their asses handed to them is because everyone else is doing that but us. And if we don't do it manufacturing will be gone permanently and soon most of the other jobs will be too. The other problem is low prices don't mean anything when a country becomes completely de-industrialized and can no longer afford even cheap stuff. The MSM says that the market is slowing in China but that is not true. They are just coming to the realization that the "1st world" is flat broke and are reorganizing to sell to other markets that actually have money. Don't get me wrong I think Trump is an idiot but with this one thing someone working for him actually knows how economics works.

We live in a global economy, and making believe we can produce and consume everything we need by ourselves is ludicrous. We don't live in the same world of 1790 or 1980 anymore. And the 1st world is by no means "flat broke;" what's happening is that emerging markets in Asia and South America and Africa are becoming more involved as consumers in the global economy instead of just suppliers of raw materials.

The real problem is growing wealth inequality, where wealth is being shifted from the middle class and the commons to a tiny, transnational elite. Until this is addressed, opposing trade agreements or imposing tariffs is at best nothing more than rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, and at worst will only accelerate this process.