Free Trade and American Innovation; Can We Compete in the Future?

Many say that treaties like NAFTA and CAFTA hurt our industries and specifically our manufacturing sector. It is hard to debate this on further review due to the number of textile jobs lost over the years in the Northeast and South. And this is one of many industries, which could not adapt to beat out the competition for cheap labor. The glass industry is another and today we see even more jobs and industries leaving for foreign shores. But the issue of cheap labor is only one real problem and it alone is not enough to cause such a sucking sound of American Industry and jobs leaving.

You see, American Entrepreneurship, Innovation and will can beat any other nation, if we will not tie it down with lead weights of over regulation and bureaucratic