they would in order to force the president s hand. mitt romney as well, senator from utah, has made the point that he s hopeful that the administration will essentially back down, will apply pressure on mexico on the flow of immigrants without imposing tariffs. this is a tax argument that republicans are making. it is a free trade argument. it s a broader economic argument as well. they are trying to speak in the language that this president understands which is economic growth, sustainability of growth and the impact on financial markets, all of which have been rattled to the point where the federal reserve chairman is talking about perhaps having to lower interest rates to sustain economic growth. these are things that in general a president would be paying attention to and certainly donald trump headed into a re-election campaign will pay attention to. it s significant that republicans are willing to take the stand. we should note this is
profitability and good for those things, but for manufacturing workers who earn a good wage in the west it has not been great. we haven t addressed that. there are many canadians that think canada got the short end of the free trade stick. i think you ll find most have bought the free trade argument. when you take wealthy nation likes the u.s. and canada aptnd put them against mexico the cost of labor and wage they make is so much lower there should be a leveling. we have seen a small one. the wages of the mexican labor have come up, they haven t come up in a meaningful way. for that to happen our wages have to stabilize or go down. so i think you re right. there is a dark side. the bright side to free trade and this is where i think this notion of dropping all tariffs saying we re going to do away with all of them, that s a very appealing one. what s says let s actually compete on what we re good at. that blue collar job of auto manufacturing is going away. a.i., robotics, mexican l
offs. trade-off for increased american manufacturing? it s possible that we could see more american manufacturing say washing machines out of this. perhaps it s better for consumers to be buying washing machines made overseas that is made cheaper. it s something that number of liberals have come around to as well. people making free trade argument. paul krugman liberal economist. this is a different view you hearing from the trump administration. it sort of contradicts people in his white house saying about artificial barriers and an open global economy. if the presidents wants to get other countries to invest in the united states, that should be seen by many business owners here as a good thing. by consumers being that we are bringing business into the united states rather than going