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[union_maid]

They need to change the trade agreements that we have. They need to penalize companies that do it and reward those that don't. If that tax cut for the rich had still gone to the rich in the form of breaks for corporations that employ people in the United States in good jobs at decent salaries then there might really have been the rise in revenue that tax cuts supposedly generate. The fact is that when NAFTA was enacted no one was envisioning a future when high paid IT based jobs could be zapped overseas or that there'd be a huge pool of people ready and able to do them so cheaply. This is an entirely new situation which not only threatens the jobs that exist, it also threatens the possiblity of future job markets in the US. The question of what displaced workers should retrain for is unaswerable for the first time in the post-WWII era. New problems call for new solutions.