These pictures in my article are of Galesburg, Illinois where the Maytag factory closed due to free trade deals. What looks like a huge parking lot is actually where many of the buildings once stood but are now dismantled and sold. Here is the before picture:
Yet another free trade treaty is going to pass Congress. Both the GOP and DNC support these deals. Every President since the first free trade deal has promised to protect American jobs and these have rapidly disappeared and wages have either dropped or stagnated. Each treaty makes things worse so of course these same promise makers have decided to keep the negotiations secret from Americans since each deal is actually TREASON. As these deals bankrupt our nation due to the world’s greatest trade deficits in the history of trade, our nation is on greased rails to bankruptcy. Instead of stopping this, all parties work for this and seem to have no desire to stop doing these things to our economy and society. The latest scheme is to use Medicare money to bribe workers who are losing their jobs so there won’t be any riots or repercussions from this latest trade deal.
