Editor, Gazette-Journal:

If you have noticed that jobs are scarcer than they used to be, that the cost of living keeps going up but incomes do not, that foreign countries are making most of the goods sold in America, and that goods cost more but are of inferior quality, these things can all be attributed to the so-called free trade agreements.

Sold to us with the lie that they will increase employment opportunities and prosperity, they achieve the opposite as they are designed to siphon our nation’s wealth and make us weaker. They erase the borders of countries (and constitutions in all but name only) and turn them into regional blocks. Think of the European Union.

Most people do not realize that agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) or the upcoming Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) contain rules and regulations that have nothing to do with free trade. A good example is the TPP, where only fiv...