We had an 800 Billion dollar trade deficit last year. This is not just unsustainable, it is a disaster for our currency and our position in the world.

Our trade policy is also a disaster for other countries. The neoliberal model of corporatization of any and all assets at home and abroad has created two distinct classes. The losers; the poor, working class and middle class around the world , the winners; the transnational corporations and the world's oligarchs. We already see the food crisis gaining momentum as transnational corporations the likes of ADM, Monsanto and Cargil tally up 100% profit increases.

We have a decision to make. Get rid of the WTO, GATT, NAFTA and all the other so called free trade deals and apply tariffs to protect our industry and markets or carry on as usual and watch our productive economy disappear and real jobs along with it.

The choice is; business as usual with higher prices, fewer jobs, a shrinking tax base and a debased currency, or ; Tariffs that will cause higher prices but, protect jobs, relocate jobs home, create tax revenue, increase our tax base and stabilize our dollar.

Economists that insist a lower dollar will shrink our trade deficit don't take into account that exporting countries will dump product, manipulate their currencies, pollute, lower wages and stifle our exports through market manipulation. We will never get to a trade equilibrium through currency devaluation because by the time is has happened we will in essence have nothing to trade that will come close to the costs of our needed imports of energy and household goods.

We have been suckered by the "Free Traders" into trading away our sovereignty to transnational corporations and their plutocratic owners.

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