Few people agree with the trade agreements the Federal Government makes with other countries. America makes agreements with China and manufacturing jobs flow to China putting Americans out of work. It lowers the price of those manufactured goods and thus the inflation rate. Bringing those jobs back raises the inflation rate. The greater the import tariffs the greater the price and inflation.

            If we cannot get governments to work out an official agreement, then how can a perfect agreement be made? The surprising location is across the Southern border. It involves two wars which may never be concluded because both countries cannot afford to lose. The trade agreement is such that few people realize how our side causes both wars.

            The agreement is we manufacture and import the much needed items and export them across the border. Those on the South side export their product to us. All this is done with little if any publicity for our exports but lots for the imports.

            The traded items are the guns we sell to the Mexicans and other cartels to fight each other and the Mexican Police and Army. Their export to us is heroin, cocaine, and other drugs. Hundreds of law enforcement people are killed each year by the guns exported from America. Tens of thousands of civilians on both sides of the border die from those guns and drugs. Thousands of Mexicans and other Latin countries’ citizens cross our borders each month to get away from the gangs shooting people with the guns we exported illegally. We exported the gangs and the guns, so who is to blame? The cartels would be out of business if we could stop using drugs and exporting the guns.