Free Trade Agreements; Yay or Nay?

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If you're a worker in an industrial nation, Free Trade Agreements are a disaster. As long as there are other countries with: 1) Low cost workers, 2) Lax nonexistent environmental laws, 3) Nonexistent government oversight, Free trade agreements give corporations big boosts in profits while transferring millions of jobs out of your country. If you asked the average citizen, do you want to drink, breath, and eat pollution, the answer is a resounding "NO"! Therefore is there any moral basis for shifting huge amount of manufacturing to countries who are going to trash the Earth? Besides, there is absolutely no way for clean domestic manufacturing companies to compete with dirty foreign manufacturing. What's fair about that?? Yes we get cheap products but think about it, what is the real price to our economy? Until developing countries can step up to the plate and produce a clean product, I'm a firm believer in tariffs. Free Trade Agreements are WONDERFUL for corporations and they are AWEFUL for middle class, working class workers. It's best not to support them unless they are a clear benefit to domestic workers. So I want to know your opinion on this situation. Have you been fired because of free trade agreements?