The myth that we are being told is that we have Free trade now and that the problem is that US companies are just not competitive. Well the definition of Free Trade is trade without ANY GOVERNMENT intervention. That idea does not has has not existed for a long time. Everyone for the FED the IMF the ECB and everyone in Asia manipulated their currencies and policies to benefit them. The US government supports the export of US jobs to the rest of the world in return for those counties buy our debt. That gives the politicians more money for the programs of transforming the our country into a European style socialist big unelected government with total control of the people.