"grampster, you get further out all the time. Now the destruction of the middle class, according to you, is the result of the Radical Feminist Movement. rolleyes I don't know whether to classify that as hilarious or pathetic. laugh"
Apparently you weren't paying much attention to the fall out caused by radical feminists. They sold the siren song of careerism in the place of family. It started in the 60's and was fueled by the beginnings of the energy crunch that began in the early 70's. Our best and brightest on both sides of the aisle refused, were too stupid, or were frightened into doing absolutely nothing about dealing with the cultural changes that were occurring along along with the looming energy problems that the paradigm of mass consumerism would bring because of the laws of supply and demand falling into place. None of them anticipated the power that oil money would bring to the tribalist overlords in the Middle East.
In fact House of Saud oil money was used to bribe the Wahhabist movement in Saudi Arabia. If we'd gotten serious about exploiting within, and along the coast of America our rich supplies of coal, oil and gas as well as nuclear power 30 some years ago, we would have been better able to handle the cultural change that occurred. Thanks to obstructionist democrats and RINO's and bending over for the radical environmentalists, here we are.
Handled properly, free trade should bring more prosperity to America. Sadly your, primarily, Democrat friends along with the RINO's managed to screw that up as well by not insisting on some tit for tat, rather than throwing open the floodgates. It also occurs to me, your friend Clinton was in office when NAFTA was OK'd, if that even matters now.