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Trump's flawed policies would threaten the global economy, say analysts (or bring back jobs)
The Guardian.com ^ | Wednesday, August 26th | Tom McCarthy

Posted on 08/27/2015 4:20:21 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accused China on Tuesday of “one of the greatest thefts in the history of the world” and said he could fix the problem by drawing on the negotiating skills laid out in his 1987 bestseller The Art of the Deal.

“I do great with the Chinese,” Trump told an audience at a campaign rally in Dubuque, Iowa. “And they’re great people. The problem is their leaders are too smart for our leaders.

“I’m a big believer in free trade. I like free trade. But it’s not good if we have dummies.”

The China lines, which amplified an argument that Trump has been making to large audiences for weeks, drew forceful applause. But they were more than crowd-pleasing barbs dropped into an extemporized stump speech.

The attacks on China, and the analysis attached to them, are undergirded – in the somewhat mysterious construct that is the Trump presidential candidacy – by actual, albeit sketchy, economic policy proposals. And analysts suggest these could threaten a trade war with China that would rearrange the global economy, with serious ramifications for the US.

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/26/donald-trump-policy-threaten-global-economy

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China runs a MASSIVE trade surplus with America.

Big time. Beyond big time, huge.

Trump is the only person saying we need to fix it. He is the only one.

Anywhere.

Trump is so right.

1 posted on 08/27/2015 4:20:21 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/26/donald-trump-policy-threaten-global-economy


2 posted on 08/27/2015 4:20:35 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
(or bring back jobs)

How?

3 posted on 08/27/2015 4:23:55 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Leftists distract with the term “global economy”.

Americans more focused on “American economy”.

Stuff like this is why Trump will win.


4 posted on 08/27/2015 4:24:35 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (The economic collapse is imminent. Buy staple food and OTC meds now, before prices skyrocket.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

The word “global” is code for America taking it in the shorts. Once you realize that, everything starts to make sense.


5 posted on 08/27/2015 4:25:00 AM PDT by rbg81 (is pr)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

There’s no such thing as a trade ‘surplus’ or ‘deficit’. It’s an invention of unionistas and socialists to gain control over people. Every trade is fully paid for when completed.

If you buy $100 worth of groceries from your grocer there is no surplus or deficit. You got exactly what you paid for. You traded dollars for goods and did so of your own free will and choice. So did the grocer.

Now, set your grocer across the border in Canada and it’s still the same. I’ve taught you this again and again and you still lie about it. Stop lying. Capisce?


6 posted on 08/27/2015 4:32:52 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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Baloney.

America runs a trade deficit with China of 342 billion just last year.

That is still growing. Yes, there is a trade deficit.

A very big, very persistent one.


7 posted on 08/27/2015 4:34:33 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Great! That’s what I want, I want the American economy to be focused on. Everything government, wall street and large companies do today takes world interests into consideration first and America is not even 5th on the list.


8 posted on 08/27/2015 4:35:36 AM PDT by bigtoona (Donald Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho Trump for president!)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network; central_va

you did notice what he said about Free Trade didn’t you??????

And you Central.....LOL LOL LOL LOL!!!! now Trump is just like me...a FREE TRAITOR - HAHAHAHA.....LOVE it when the lo fo Freepers are caught in a steaming pile.


9 posted on 08/27/2015 4:41:38 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (WTF? How Karl Rove and the Establishment Lost...Again)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

I’ve just proved it, but you’re too ideologically blind or willfully stupid to admit it. You go to a garage sale and buy a widget for $1. Do you now have a ‘trade deficit’ with the seller? He’s bought nothing from you.

Worse, Democrats like you make this argument to take the hook off of government policies which are the real reason for job losses.


10 posted on 08/27/2015 4:43:36 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

The Chinese are thinking in terms of generations - lots of them. The very long view, with a concerted plan to accomplish that.

Our leaders don’t look beyond the next election, and how many after that it is until they can amass enough graft and greed to keep them comfortable in their waning years.


11 posted on 08/27/2015 4:43:46 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Trumps version of Fee Trade is 100% different than yours. Trump is a Free Trader you are a Free Traitor™ BIG DIFFERENCE.


12 posted on 08/27/2015 4:45:24 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: rbg81

I use the term gloBULL, works for me.


13 posted on 08/27/2015 4:46:43 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

The Graun ... always wrong.


15 posted on 08/27/2015 4:49:52 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: C. Edmund Wright

342 billion is the size of our trade deficit with China last year.

342 billion.

BRING BACK AMERICAN JOBS.


16 posted on 08/27/2015 4:50:05 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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“I’m a big believer in free trade. I like free trade. But it’s not good if we have dummies.

Dummies? That would be you. But Free Traitors™ are not dumb they are a stateless anti American scum bags.

17 posted on 08/27/2015 4:50:27 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

One day I hope in my life time, Free Traitors™ will be given a real platform so they can espouse the benefits of dealing with ChiComs from on top of the gallows.....


18 posted on 08/27/2015 4:52:30 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Gaffer

If only we had better central planners than they do! Look what central planning did for the Soviets, Cubans, North Koreans and Venezuelans.

I mean how can conservatives be so stupid as to believe in central planning?


19 posted on 08/27/2015 4:52:31 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: C. Edmund Wright; central_va; Cringing Negativism Network

These two patented liars are like a Mobius loop. No matter the evidence they return to their unionista training. Just like a Democrat to his vomit.


20 posted on 08/27/2015 4:54:54 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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