Posted on 02/27/2017 1:08:50 PM PST by TakebackGOP
"During his much-anticipated Friday morning speech at CPAC, President Donald Trump found common ground with “democratic socialist” Sen. Bernie Sanders.
“Ya know, Bernie is right on one issue — trade,” Trump said to a crowd of excited conservatives. While there wasn’t a grumble in the room, at least not a noticeable one … there should have been.
On his radio program Friday, Mark Levin took time to explain the lunacy of Trump’s statement and why conservatives need to differentiate themselves from this phony, so-called “nationalist-populist” movement."
Nobody who actually listens to the Levin show could possibly take that statement seriously.
Levin is a never-Trumper loser. As for the so called “phony, so-called “nationalist-populist” movement”, nothing is more phony than globalist-corporate fake conservatives. Globalism is against everything the founders of this country fought and died for, and is not “conservative”.
Levin is wound a little tight.
I’d rather have dinner with Bernie Sanders than Mark Levin.
Sanders, of course is a Communist and a strong protectionist.
John Maynard Keynes was a strong protectionist — leading in large part to a worldwide Depression.
Big Labor is VERY protectionist. They have opposed almost every measure to reduce trade barriers.
As Daniel Griswold notes at Cato, “In the past 30 years, labor unions have pushed for higher trade barriers in the form of “domestic content” requirements for autos sold in the United States, import quotas for textiles and steel, and the Gephardt amendments of 1986–87 that would have imposed sanctions on imports from nations that ran large bilateral trade surpluses with the United States (Destler and Balint 1999: 19). More recently, unions have lobbied for higher tariffs, quotas, or outright bans on imported steel, tires made in China, and Mexican-driven trucks on
U.S. highways. Labor leaders lobbied hard for the “Buy American” provisions in the $800 billion stimulus package that Congress approved and President Obama signed in early 2009.”
https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/2010/1/cj30n1-10.pdf
Here is an article strongly supporting “progressive protectionism”:
http://progressiveprotectionism.com/wordpress/
The delusional “progressive” economist Paul Krugman is another protectionist:
https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/09/a-protectionist-moment/
Protectionism is a high-tax, Big Government policy.
BTW, TPP and NAFTA are not free-trade agreements.
Divide and conquer Mark, you should know better. It’s hard for the Rats to successful attack him if you are fomenting in-fighting among them.
YES CHRIS PLANTE IS! He is my favorite!
True, at least in his later years.
... leading in large part to a worldwide Depression.
Maybe not so true. Keynes changed his views during the Depression. He was a free trader before that.
The delusional “progressive” economist Paul Krugman is another protectionist
That's also true. But not true of most recent Democrat presidents, who were strongly in favor of free trade and foreign trade agreements.
Not really. They paid lip service to free trade. What they were for is managed trade, a la NAFTA.
Protectionism (Smoot-Hawley) had no effect on the Great Depression. That is a flat out lie. Smoot-Hawley is a straw man invention of the globalist crowd.
Most economists I know and trust say that Smoot-Hawley was one of the leading reasons for the Depression.
Few people in politics are going to unilaterally cut or abolish tariffs without reciprocal action by foreign countries, but Democratic administrations since Kennedy and before have pushed for tariff reductions.
How ‘bout we whittle down Fedzilla to its rightful size and scope THEN worry about free trade...or not.
Let’s see what a TRUE Free Market would accomplish. No welfare (of *any* kind), rules\regs vs. TRUE fraud/damage, lower taxes all around, etc.
Levin is a total moron to me, at this point.
He obviously doesn’t give a damn about our treasured Constitution that he supposedly espouses allegiance and, therefore, the overall future of our country.
It’s a shame that some of Ted Cruz’ class and sensibility cannot rub off on this buffoon. Ted was so amazing at CPAC, yet his buddy Mark just sat alongside like a bump on a log.
I think Mark has issues. Trump was just throwing Bernie a bone.
Trump knows exactly who Bernie is. Trump will treat him in whatever manner is beneficial to the patriots. If he can be used to cast aspersions on the pelosites he will so be used. If Sanders becomes actually a threat he will find himself outed and shamed..
The GD was a financial crises and a banking crises. People were borrowing money to buy stocks. The whole thing collapsed. Blaming the GD on trade policy is ridiculous.
We had periodic depressions. We had one in 1921. Teh government did nothing. it was over in a year to a year and a half.
Policies like Smoot-Hawley (and the New Deal) made a normal depression into The Great Depression — longer and deeper than it ever would have been otherwise.
(A lesson the Bush Administration should have learned.)
So who is still listening to Beck and Levin at this point? What kind of ratings are they getting?
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