Posted on 01/25/2017 8:52:08 PM PST by TBP
They make an interesting case that free trade is essential for jobs. In that, they're aligned with Adam Smith, the Austrians, and other free-market economists.
What do you think of their analysis?
“What do you think of their analysis?”
Same old deceitful America-hating crap.
Frankly, no one listens. You might get a yob or two yelling about “traitors,” but that’s about it.
So many Globalists being outed. If they didn’t have an axe to grind they would have actually defined Trump’s position accurately. All of these establishment types use a strawman approach. There is no “Free Trade” now, only trade that is stacked against the US and for other countries. Trump is just trying to even out the situation. America sorely needs someone to look out for her interests. Trade will in the end be just as “free” as it is at present.
Let me know when we have free trade. If they are arguing the monstrous, managed trade by supra national entities like WTO and NAFTA and TPP are ‘free trade’, then they are dumber than a bag of hammers.
Watch what the US and the UK work out bilaterally with Trump and May in the near future. That will be as close to free trade as we are likely ever to get.
“America-hating crap”? Seriously?
You’re obviously not familiar with FEE.
This sounds like it could have been written by the pea-brained Bret Stephens of the WSJ
FEE is anything but globalist.
Foundation for Economic Education (FEE)
Koch Industries Climate Denial Front Group
$89,267 from Koch foundations 1997-2014
The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) is a free market organization with offices in Irvington, New York and Atlanta, Georgia that publishes The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty, a largely libertarian publication. Unscientific skepticism and obstructionism regarding global warming are promoted both on FEEs blogs and through The Freemanincluding Willie Soon, whose grants since 2002 are exclusively from fossil fuel interests, and the promotion of two books by discredited industry apologist scientists Patrick Michaels and Robert Balling.
[I]n general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.It does beg the question as to what Marx would have thought. The irony of Xi Jinping, perhaps the biggest protectionist in the world, touting free trade at Davos; is that lost on Marxs statement here, or is it compatible?
Because it’s brought such prosperity to America :)
Only 20 trillion in debt with a tremendous number of people out of work.
If you’re for corporate robber barons who make a FORTUNE using basically slave labor and making you and yours suckers, by all means there are MANY countries that believe in “free trade” to move to.
Free trade and global corporatism are two different things.
A child could understand that.
Amazing how almost every stadium is now names after a company.
Go watch Rollerball with James Caan to see what was coming
So while the libs don’t like FEE, the Koch Bros do and we know they are gunning for Trump.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/02/kickng-money-out-of-politics-trump-boots-koch-brother-from-golf-course/
Depends if you understand Marx’s statement, for starters. He claims that he is in favor of free trade because it will cause a revolution of the proletariat. Be careful when you tread near this argument, you don’t want free-traders to think you’re a real Marxist.
They are supported heavily by the Koch Bros who are committed to open boarders & cheap labor. While they may not directly promote globalism I believe in following the money trail.
Yeah, can you imagine all the Heineken I’ve purchased over the decades adding to the national debt? The mind boggles.
Of course. Perhaps I should have highlighted the part where he mentions “hasten(ing) the social revolution”. This appears to be what Xi is thinking too.
From my old house, if you go down the, cross Route 9 (Broadway), adn go up that driveway, you're at FEE.
I've been in there, read The Freeman for quite a while, followed their work, and read a lot of their materials. I'm FB friends with people there.
My alma mater has sent many interns to FEE.
What they are is Austrian economists. They are the most free-market types out there.
Oh, yes, the eeeeeevul Koch Brothers!
This is an idiotic article.
An “agreement” of thousands of pages with thousands of dos and don’ts is not what I call free trade.
There are hundreds if not thousands of terms in all these “free trade” pacts that the various countries fight over to benefit their individual countries. So a shrewd negotiator like Trump wanting to look at them is not anti-free trade. it’s simply someone who thinks the other countries have gotten the better end of the deal.
They were not free-trade from the beginning.
If you want real free trade you don’t need any government to government agreement. You just let individuals and businesses trade on their own across national boundaries with no hindrance from the governments.
And I totally agree with him about not having trade deals that involve dozens of countries and with governing bodies who have more power over us than our own government.
He likes bilateral agreements which I think is a much better way to go.
“Youre obviously not familiar with FEE.”
Well, I’m not the one pretending that Trump is against free trade, and that is the bottom line.
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