re: #283 Killgore Trout

I agree, it’s a dirty word and a political hot potato. The claims and accusations can be politically effective regardless of truth or economic reality.

Well to people who have been hurt by it, it’s more than a dirty word, it’s a reality. You have to understand that in many of these industrial towns that the jobs go from generation to generation. When I took economics, I read an article by an economist who proposed training workers who had lost their jobs due to outsourcing in new fields. I liked that idea. Still do. As I said, I’m not a protectionist but free traders need to realize the human cost of labor lost.