Yup, it was always framed as if China, or Japan, or Korea was "stealing" the good jobs from the USA. Even though what really was happening was that the USA businesses were sending those jobs overseas all on their own.
That didn't happen on its own. It was US government policy to give preferential treatment to other countries, opening US markets wide, while letting those same countries close their markets to American made goods. This could only harm the American worker.
The nail in the coffin was NAFTA. Ross Perot was right about the "great sucking sound" of American working class jobs disappearing to Mexico.
Yup, it was always framed as if China, or Japan, or Korea was "stealing" the good jobs from the USA. Even though what really was happening was that the USA businesses were sending those jobs overseas all on their own.
That didn't happen on its own. It was US government policy to give preferential treatment to other countries, opening US markets wide, while letting those same countries close their markets to American made goods. This could only harm the American worker.
The nail in the coffin was NAFTA. Ross Perot was right about the "great sucking sound" of American working class jobs disappearing to Mexico.