Posted on 08/25/2015 6:46:47 PM PDT by dontreadthis
The powerful Globalist players at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Bilderberg Group, and the Trilateral Commission are certainly watching the presidential campaign of Donald Trump.
Trump has already made statements about immigration they find troubling. They may or may not be taking Trump’s presidential run seriously. They may or may not view him as an inconsequential blowhard, a shoot-from-the-hip cowboy who forgets today what he said yesterday—but today the New York Times has made reference to Trump in a way that will make these Globalist heavy hitters pause and blink while drinking their morning coffee (Here in “As Stock Market Plunges, Donald Trump Takes a Worldview” by Alan Rappeport):
“Mr. Trump has said that bad trade deals with China and Mexico are to blame for a sluggish American economy and weak job creation. He has promised to make ‘great’ deals with other countries to protect American workers and has threatened to raise taxes on imports to the United States to bolster domestic production.”
It’s the last part that rings alarm bells and shoots firecrackers into the sky:
“[Trump] has threatened to raise taxes on imports to the United States to bolster domestic production.”
Taxes on imports. Also known as tariffs.
Every significant trade-treaty negotiated since 1945 has been aimed at lowering or eliminating tariffs, in order to establish Globalist “free trade.”
Treaties like GATT, NAFTA, CAFTA, for example; as well as the current TPP and its cousins.
Free trade is code for: mega-corporations and banks can roam the planet and set up shop anywhere they please. They can bankroll and build production facilities, produce cheap goods, and sell them anywhere in the world without paying tariffs.
Tariffs would make that whole operation useless. It would defeat mega-corporate greed and ambition internationally.
“We’ve got these factories making gizmos in East Nowhere, we’re paying workers four cents an hour, we’ve got no environmental/health regs and rules that would raise production costs, there are no worker unions, and we’ve therefore got a big edge on our smaller competitors, because we can ship these gizmos anywhere in the world and sell them cheaper than they can, and all of this is possible because we pay no tariffs. If there were stiff tariffs, we’d have to shut down the whole scene, pack our bags, and leave…”
Globalism, at one level, is all about erasing tariffs.
Whether in a momentary fit, or by serious intent, Trump has crossed swords with the Globalists.
President Nixon tried that for a few moments in the early 1970s, and betrayed his main sponsor, David Rockefeller. Nixon erected a few tariffs to save American-based companies.
Rockefeller was and is Globalism personified.
Soon, Nixon found himself on a helicopter heading away from the White House for the last time.
Trump might want to think about pumping up his security detail.
He’s just stumbled into the Twilight Zone where money makes money for money making money. Trump $$$ is nothing compared with Globalist $$$.
He’s just pulled the pin on a quiescent grenade in the world of mainstream media, where the subject of tariffs is a no-no.
“Reggie, Klaus here. I was just reading the Times this morning. Did you see the reference to Donald Trump? Tariffs? Maybe we should take a second look at this lunatic. If he presses forward with the idea of protecting American businesses, and it catches on, and people figure out what he’s saying…if he figures out what he’s saying…we could have a problem. If all sorts of business people—I don’t mean people like us—but ordinary business people see a chance to come back to life…with tariffs to protect them…Trump’s campaign could take on a new dimension. We’d have to do whatever it takes to stop it…”
Yes, if the American people figure out that the new normal economy, as miserable as it actually is, is linked like a lock and key to the Globalist plan; if the American people figure out that no recent American president, including Obama, had any ambition whatsoever to lift up the American economy; that all these presidents are liars of the first order; something might happen.
Something might change.
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It was, don’t worry.
Crazieman is a cover. ;)
Give ‘em Hell Trump, Give ‘em Hell!
Which is better? Tin foil or aluminum foil? If I pick the wrong one the few brain cells I have left may fry.
I could always call Planned ParenthoodNot for more I suppose...
Being able to import cheaper goods helps both American consumers and American businesses. If you tax imports, a lot of businesses who use those goods will have to pay more, and pass those costs onto the consumer or go out of business entirely. A tariff is a tax and has the same devastating economic effects.
If we can get goods for cheap, it’s almost as good as getting them for free. The idea that you would turn down a fountain of free resources because you want to make an American company create them and charge people instead is ludicrous. When you can get something cheap or free, you stop making it and direct your citizens to use their labors on something else. That’s called increasing productivity and the standard of living.
There’s no “lost jobs” that won’t be regained by kicking and keeping the illegals out and by cutting off welfare and entitlements to non-senior citizen, able-bodied people. They’ll take all the jobs illegals currently have, there won’t be a jobs problem, and no consumer or business will be asked to pay more to get less.
While I think this is true....and you are right........it’s downright scary.
And yes, even if he wanted to quit......and I don’t think he will......they would never let him off the hook.
He’s running headlong into the storm......
He is in my prayers.
The Megyn Kelly brouhaha is meant to scare off future reporters from asking him about the personal issues he is afraid will take him down. He was asked by one interviewer if there is any personal scandal that might come out that would hurt his candidacy and his answer was one of the less forceful and definitive answers I’ve seen him give. Sort of an “I don’t think so, I guess not” type of answer.
to avoid tariffs:
1. eliminate crony capitalism
2, eliminate onerous regulations
3. make “good trade deals”
otherwise national populism will insist on them
I was just about to post...Trump hasn’t mentioned the Fed, or gold standard, yet.
I hope Trump has the BEST security money can buy and I hope they go back a long way so there are no traitors or people who can be bought.
I know NOTHING about protecting an official, but I sure hope they do.
Amazing, the whole dam world is afraid of this guy.
Oh, except for Americans who want their country back.
I am no blind follower by far, but a Trump/Cruz ticket could be our last hope to save our beloved country.
Also, my brain goes into contortions when I hear pantsuit is still up by 6 or 7 over him!!
Who are these idiots?!?!?!
We can get 20 percent of the black vote if we try, They CAN’T be happy to see dems bending over backwards for illegal alien hordes while giving them the brush off.
And they see Trump as more of a celebrity fighting the good fight than an evil black baby killing republican.
If they can’t find a scandal, they will manufacture one. They’ll go through the phone books until they find some woman to say Donald put Spanish Fly in her drink. That’s why I think he’s inoculating himself now. He trying to connect directly with the American people to bypass the press altogether. I’ve watched Fox on and off all day to gauge what effect its having. Its like throwing ice water on somebody over there any time someone mentions Trump’s name, and they change the subject as soon as possible. But Trump is already bigger than them. He IS the news! He is revealing them to be nothing but a propaganda mill. Its not news at all. Fox is like the “conservative” version of Pravda.
These are interesting times, and Donald couldn’t have come along at a better time. But its going to get damn ugly from here on out.
It is scary. He’s in my prayers too.
“Trump is making big money enemies. They play for real.”
So, what should he or any other candidate do? Have we really gotten to the point at which fear rules our nation, our lives are manipulated by unelected people we know little or nothing about, and those who attempt to fight back have to fear being murdered?
Trump’s smarter than that. That’s something you do when nobody’s looking. Even calling for deportations of illegals was risky. But announcing ahead of time you’re going to get rid of the Fed is probably fatal.
Correctomundo.
Yeah the Bohemian Grove rituals are all in your mind, just like the Illuminati.
Some people proclaim their naivete and consider it humor. Quite odd.
At some level......yes
I was thinking that myself..
Cheap import being a positive effect on the economy are one thing to debate about “Free Trade”.
However, loss of millions of US jobs due to offshore manufacturing, and foreign outsourcing, has dramatically hurt our economy, middle class standard of living, and degrades our sovereign domestic manufacturing capability.
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