Unions Ready to Fight Obama's Free-Trade Pact With South Korea

IF those who oppose free trade agreements want to keep buying poorly made, overpriced American junk, that is your prerogative. No free trade agreement can force you to buy foreign made goods. But don't try and force the rest of us to buy overpriced junk.

I am curious as to why anyone cares anymore what labor unions think. Labor unions represent such a small fraction of the American workforce that what they think doesn't matter anymore. Furthermore, the fact that they keep losing members means they are continuing their march to irrelevance.

YOU KNOW IF AMERICANS REFUSED TO BUY FORIGN PRODUCTS AND ONLY BOUGHT AMERICAN THESE FREE TRADE ACTS WOULD REMAIN USELESS....

Anyone remember another deal called NAFTA? Gee that really worked out Great. Yes Great but not for us as it was only great for Mexico and cost us Billions,not to mention all the re-work done on products from Mexico.Why should this next Blunder be any better?The answer is it won't.

This is not a "free trade" agreement. South Korea will drop their auto import tariff from 8 to 4 percent and we will maintain ours at 2.5%. South Korea will allow less than 100 thousand autos from the US, but they ship more than 400 thousand to the US. Tell me why we want to accept a lop sided agreement. This is not the only example of the predatory lop sided trade agreements that our government signs us up for. It seems to me that we should at least charge the same level of tariffs and impose the same restrictions that our trading partners do...

When Korea is allowed to sell us 52 automobiles to every 1 we can sell there,that does not sound like free trade. Sounds like the politicans haven't got a clue to what is fair trade. It is up to us out here to buy American and avoid foreign at every chance we have.

The unions have one big problem. They simply cannot compete with the cheap overseas labor. I remember when the assembly line workers in the TV and electronics manufacturing plants were unionized. That was the beginning of the end for American TV manufacturing. If unions keep demanding exorbitant wages and benefits they will end up like America's manufacturing plants and be a thing of the past.

Trade deals have started out with good intentions, we trade with them, they trade with us. In reality American corporations just pick up and leave where they can leave behind the expenses of manufacturing in the US. So. Korea had a plant in Haiti taking advantage of the Caribbean Initiative to send goods duty free to the US. The only benefit that may come out of this is that American corporations that moved to China may pull out and move to So. Korea.