Glenn Reynolds says [1] "FREE TRADE: A jobs program that works", which links to "Trade is a jobs program that works" [2] from the site "Bankrupting America". That's run by an organization called "Public Notice", and the person behind both is Gretchen Hamel who was formerly part of the U.S. Trade Representative's office in the George W Bush administration [3]. Yes, all of the above are big clues to what's coming:

Opponents of trade liberalization claim that jobs are lost as a result of increased competition with foreign producers. Additional competition can result in some job loss, which can be acute in certain sectors and painful for those involved. Yet those costs are dwarfed by the benefits free trade creates.

Free trade improves our standard of living by giving millions of Americans access to higher quality, lower priced, and more diverse goods. U.S. businesses also benefit from access to lower cost imports, which reduces their input costs, enabling them to produce more, hire more, and compete in the world market.

1. Can someone provide a trustworthy study showing the supposed benefits from free trade? Does that study take into account all of the massive impacts, such as hollowing out the manufacturing infrastructure in the U.S.? From this (which was linked from here):

Since 2000, the U.S. has lost 5.5 million manufacturing jobs, with 2.1 million of those jobs being lost in the last two years alone. Since 2001, over 42,400 factories have closed in the U.S., and another 90,000 are considered at severe risk of closing. The last time so few were employed in manufacturing was in 1941, before World War II spending pulled that sector out of its Great Depression slump.

2. The claim about "higher quality, lower priced, and more diverse goods" is more or less specious. If one U.S. company produces a low-quality product, other factors excluded, another U.S. company will compete with them by producing a higher-quality product. Of course, due to things such as slave and child labor, people living on a dollar a day, and so on other countries are able to produce comparable items at a lower price than U.S. producers, but the "higher quality" claim is bogus. The only products that the U.S. can't produce at any price are certain luxury goods and foreign innovations, but those will command a premium price. There's no "diversity" in free trade, since that almost completely deals in commodity items. None of that means we should wall off the U.S. (a strawman argument that "free" trade supporters like to make), however there's really no national interest in opening our markets even more to countries like China.

3. And, of course, Reynolds is just one cog in the long line of those - including the tea parties which he constantly promotes - who've refused to support immigration enforcement as a way to free up jobs for their fellow Americans.

[1] pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/95747
[2] bankruptingamerica.org/2010/03/15/trade-is-a-jobs-program-that-works
[3] From this:

Former Capitol Hill staffers Nathan Imperiale, Gretchen Hamel, and Sean Spicer are joining forces to launch a public relations and strategy firm, Endeavour Global Strategies. "We all enjoyed working together before and wanted to create a firm of our own that utilizes our unique nexus of experience -- international, policy, political and new media," Hamel said. Spicer and Hamel served as assistant and deputy assistant in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative media affairs office in the Bush administration. Hamel has worked for former House Republican Conference Chairman J.C. Watts of Oklahoma, and Rep. John Carter (R-TX). Spicer has worked for the House Republican Conference, House Budget Committee, House Government Reform Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee. Imperiale is a former aide for the House Republican Conference.