Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“Yes, many auto workers had to find new jobs once imported vehicles were allowed to compete with American-built vehicles [under NAFTA]. Yes, that made some of their lives harder and left some of them worse off, at least temporarily and sometimes long-term. Welcome to the real world, where auto workers aren’t unique and special snowflakes who never have to change careers like the rest of us. The average American changes jobs 12 times in his or her lifetime … and the average American, including one who worked on a Ford assembly line at some point, is more prosperous now than he or she was in 1993. Trump’s cockamamie tariff schemes might well have been intentionally tailored to undo all that.” (03/27/25)