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Rush You are being hypocritical - vanity
vanity | 12/05/14 | self

Posted on 12/04/2014 10:28:07 AM PST by central_va

Rush is lamenting on air how the ChiComs have surpassed the USA in GDP, we're now no. 2. Well Rush, as one of the BIGGEST proponents of "Free Trade" and off shoring YOU ARE BEING HYPOCRITICAL. Sorry I call them as I see them


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To: central_va

How about you? I’m guessing you work at the Post Office.


41 posted on 12/04/2014 10:46:29 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://www.gold-eagle.com/article/black-tuesday-october-29th-1929-revisited

SECOND VERSION at this link explains the ‘loans’ and the Federal Reserve involvement.


42 posted on 12/04/2014 10:46:53 AM PST by Kackikat
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To: VanDeKoik
It's important to note that all of the controversy surrounding "free trade" is mainly a function of the industrial age. In agrarian economies there wasn't much concern about the impacts of trade because nature pretty much ensured that trade couldn't become "predatory" in any way. If you owned a grain farm in Iowa you didn't have to worry about competition from Great Britain, for example, because the growing conditions for grain in Iowa -- combined with the cost of transporting grain from other places -- always favored the Iowa farmer for the domestic U.S. grain market.

That all changed with industrialization because manufacturing is a capital-intensive process where there are no major natural advantages like you have in agriculture. As a result, manufacturing tended to migrate to places where: (1) the cost of materials and the availability of transportation infrastructure were favorable for industry, and (2) government policies made it attractive to do business.

Having said that ... China didn't surpass the U.S. in GDP because of anything related to trade policy. China was eventually going to surpass the U.S. in GDP no matter what -- because China's population is something like four times the size of ours.

43 posted on 12/04/2014 10:46:53 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("The ship be sinking.")
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To: CodeToad
If those conservatives are Christians, there's this, which doesn't leave much wiggle room, does it?

Mark 10:2-12: 2 And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?" 3 He answered them, "What did Moses command you?" 4 They said, "Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce, and to put her away." 5 But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. 6 But from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female.' 7 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh.' So they are no longer two but one flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder." 10 And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. 11 And he said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery against her; 12 and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery."

44 posted on 12/04/2014 10:49:19 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: central_va
Nope, it is hypocritical. “Free Trade” and illegal immigration are how the Chamber Of Commerce took over America and outsourced everything outside of the services sector (which they are working on outsourcing now). Cheap labor, dirt cheap labor, and slave labor are hard to compete with in a First World country. Manufacturing is all but done in the USA.

It has driven non-entrepreneurs and non-salesmen to the Public sector to earn a wage they can actually subsist on. Teaching pays more than most Science jobs nowadays. Blame the union all you want, but it's primarily that way because you can't outsource a classroom of children - yet.

The only thing stopping the outsourcing of American job was the kind of tariffs and levies the Founding Fathers always used to protect American interests. That's gone now, because the Chamber of Commerce types swear by Milton Friedman and despise Adam Smith. Economic Patriotism is “Socialism” if you ask them. “Start your own damn business or shut up,” is the attitude. Then try actually starting a new business when the Chamber businesses are gods to the Legislative bodies. Good luck.

Make no mistake about it. When we talk about the “Global Economy,” we talk about reaching new markets and new investments. The Free Traders are talking about ten-cent an hour labor in Third-World countries without consequence. Free Trade has widened the wealth gap and destroyed the market for the American worker.

45 posted on 12/04/2014 10:50:52 AM PST by TitansAFC (2016: 1. Palin, 2. Cruz, 3. Huckabee (to make the GOP-E see what WE go through) 4. Walker)
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To: Labyrinthos
You think only saints can be conservative?

What are your sins?

46 posted on 12/04/2014 10:51:56 AM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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To: TitansAFC
Economic Patriotism is “Socialism” if you ask them. “Start your own damn business or shut up,” is the attitude.

Worth repeating.

47 posted on 12/04/2014 10:52:35 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Does Rush claim to be Christian?


48 posted on 12/04/2014 10:53:17 AM PST by Politicalkiddo ("It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."- Benjamin Franklin)
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To: TitansAFC

Everyone talks about Detroit, well there are thousands of mini Detroits all over the USA....


49 posted on 12/04/2014 10:53:43 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Alberta's Child

You really have to shake your head about it: “The Chinese are (bigger/better/whatever), so we need to raise taxes on ourselves.” Seriously?


50 posted on 12/04/2014 10:54:09 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Alas Babylon!

Everyone claims to know what the Bible says. Put 100 of you in a room and we’ll get 101 opinions on the matter, each claiming the other is not Christine and cherry picking the verses they want to obey.

I think God said not to judge.


51 posted on 12/04/2014 10:54:14 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: central_va
I live a mile outside Detroit's city limits. You want a manufacturing job? Come here. Lots of companies are hiring.

(But no one wants to get dirty and work 10-12 hour shifts).

52 posted on 12/04/2014 10:55:49 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: central_va

Rush did not line up behind The Lil’ General to kill-off NAFTA when we had the chance, and he has some long-time listeners who will never forget that.


53 posted on 12/04/2014 10:56:36 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Lazamataz

Dammit, why did I throw away my secret decoder ring.


54 posted on 12/04/2014 10:57:35 AM PST by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: 1rudeboy
I live a mile outside Detroit's city limits. You want a manufacturing job? Come here. Lots of companies are hiring.

How many applicants can pass the drug test? I know of a plant here in the Pittsburgh region where the failure rate is 68%.


55 posted on 12/04/2014 10:58:21 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: central_va
Rush is an entertainer who sells advertisement time to his customers. That is all.

/johnny

56 posted on 12/04/2014 10:59:37 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: 1rudeboy
I live a mile outside Detroit's city limits. You want a manufacturing job? Come here. Lots of companies are hiring.

If you can't hire then the prevailing wage offered is too low. It's called supply and demand. Nothing to do with getting dirty or anything else.

57 posted on 12/04/2014 11:00:41 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Labyrinthos

Remember when Rush’s 3rd wife had him promoting the horrible gaudy ties she invented? It reminded me of the Seinfield episode when Kramer’s girlfriend got Sienfield to go on national TV wearing a pirate shirt she designed.


58 posted on 12/04/2014 11:00:45 AM PST by MNDude
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To: central_va

Called it what you will, but what is happening between the US and China isn’t free trade. Nothing free about it.


59 posted on 12/04/2014 11:01:28 AM PST by deadrock (I am someone else.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
I've been with this company about 4 months. The only new faces I see are ones who have passed the drug test/physical. And about 50% of them wash out after a week.

It was somewhat surprising. I had known all along, but it reminded me that we are raising a generation destined to work at Starbuck's.

60 posted on 12/04/2014 11:02:41 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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