We signed a free trade deal a long time ago...what were we really thinking then.  We allowed a huge neighbors from imposing rules and regulation on our industries....are we better off now.  Have the lost of most of our crown corporation that provided jobs..stable jobs though not necessarily profitable provided stability.  The US is creating an Island for themselves because of the decades of self inflicted wounds.  THey say 20 to 40 million american are on food stamps...are we really going to wage a trade war now.  Economic instability is a recipe for a disaster.  One is for sure all our government are pretty much broke..so we will see  massive taxation, fees, manipulated inflation of home prices to keep the debt economy moving hoping that the world will get better.   There was a debate in the US after the Civil war concerning free trade and it was deemed that no nation can be build without protecting its economy that under the shadow of Cheap labor from the World Empires at the time.