Exactly. Remember how NAFTA was going to produce hundreds of thousands of US jobs? These are the claims made by “free trade” (read: managed trade to protect powerful market players) every time, just like they make humanitarian claims every time we drop bombs on people.
No one who can think for themselves buys any of this crap anymore, but it doesn’t matter: the government is firmly controlled by the plutocracy. Our democracy, imperfect as it was, no longer exists. Expect a huge crash within the next 3 years. Its inevitable.
