While I understand that we are a representative democracy, it is the politicians, alone, who enter into the global trade agreements, NAFTA, TPA/TPP, not the general citizenry. To make matters worse, politicians often self deal and or serve monied and powerful interests before they do the common citizenry - the ways that they do this are manifold.
So, my original point was to say that millennials holding older generations responsible for the debt and lack of jobs is a categorical fallacy. In other words, just because a group of people were old enough to vote, and voted for various leaders and those leaders ran things into the ground, doesn't make them one in the same with those leaders. There's also elements of the "false dichotomy" in there. But that's another matter.
Anyway, as you probably already know, we got the trade agreements because big businesses figured out that they could get someone in another country to do a day's labor for what an hour's wage in the U.S. would cost. The trade off was that we were supposed to get back cheaper goods. Setting aside whether producers truly reduced costs proportionately, the actual costs to American consumers actually skyrocketed. Hypothetical example: Carrier moves production to Mexico, and as a result, a $7,500 HVAC unit in a few years will drop to $5,500. Sounds great! Were going to save $2,000 on HVAC units. Utopia! But, if Americans don't have jobs, or are grossly under employed, then the cost of that unit actually goes up for them. Dystopia!
We'd better relate this topic to baseball quickly or it'll turn into a 10 page thread covering everything from religion to political correctness while touching on the need for social spending reforms.
How 'bout them Cubbies?
