Is it really a free trade agreement if the US gets to subsidise its exports?
No, in fact all of our supposed “free trade” agreements are one way. Essentially we freely export our culture and undercut local markets with our extremely cheap (subsidized) agricultural products, destroy the local rural economy and open up sweat shops to give factory jobs to the displaced farmers who cannot compete. Essentially the “freedom” involved in “free trade” is the freedom of multi-national corporations to export jobs to these countries where labor prices have been artificially depressed and thereby build up “excess capacity” so that they can lay off the unionized American workers. Great for profits, terrible for people, freedom and democracy.
