They only want a free market overseas, they want corporate takeover (no competition) at home.
A friend of mine who was around back then told me the Monongahela Valley used to look like the fires of Mordor at night 
He once had to take his boss's wooden boat out of the river and it was petrified by all the iron
and what not, so it nearly broke the rig 
Funny thing is, all the parochial people in this country say "well we're a lot better off without those dirty industries" and their implicitly critical of the fact that they were "overpaid and underskilled" union jobs 
But they have NO problem with the same industries doing gangbusters now that they are overseas, and twice as polluting, and paying people much less in China, because it's out of sight, out of mind! They want everyone to compete for a limited pool of technocratic office jobs, meritocracy (which implies a small pool of highly skilled winners and a large pool of losers).
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