Posted on 01/25/2017 8:52:08 PM PST by TBP
Drinking that piss water would boggle any mind.
Just WHERE are all of the JOBS that NAFTA was supposed to make materialize in the USA?
Is this a lefty think-tank?
Then why are they so dishonest in presenting Trump’s trade position? They may be nice folks but I do not find their analysis accurate or compelling. Perhaps you also like the analyses in “The Economist”?
I could be swimming in the stuff and still understand the difference between the budget and trade deficits. Just sayin’.
And we need to remember that the EU, which was supposed to be "FREE TRADE" and "help" ALL of its members, sucked for most of the nations and helped a teensy few; those who didn't really "need" any help at all.
Dishonest how?
There, fixed it!
Regards,
Many thanks for that info! I knew it was some stupid, WORTHLESS, POS thing; instinctively.
As Pat Buchanan pointed out, NAFTA is not free trade. it’s managed, preferred trade.
If tehy wanted to make a free trade agreement, they should just write a one-pager saying “There shall be no trade barriers among these countries.” Simple.
Anything else is NOT free trade.
Granted, simply anecdotal—but I have a job that’s NAFTA-related. You know, one of those jobs you hear people mention now and then. A manufacturing job. Just outside of Detroit (where the people that whine the most about the loss of manufacturing jobs don’t want to live).
Tariffs are not free trade. Protectionism is not free trade. “Economic nationalism” is not free trade.
They may be the policies you prefer, but they are not in any way free trade. Nor would President Trump claim that they are.
How much of that one page would be devoted to translation? Buchanan is a nitwit.
They’re CRAP spewers, which obviously you enjoy swallowing.
You understand very little. But hey, if we keep incentivizing offshoring of manufacturing, we can all sell insurance to each other.
I know the difference between the two, and I also know what free trade really is.
The chief obstacles to free trade are China and Germany. Germany is the leading European source of instability in Europe. There is a relationship here.
No, they're not, actually.
Actually, it would be calamitous to have both. You have one or the other.
I lvoe how people just attack FEE, but they don’t actually address teh argument that is made.
I lvoe how people just attack FEE, but they don’t actually address teh argument that is made.
By distorting the definition of free trade to suggest that such a thing exists at present and that Trump has scuttled it.
There is an unbelievable level of disingenuousness in this article which is why I say follow the money trail.
The conflagration with the 100 largest corporations' profit stream from international business and the trade treaties being good for America is a particularly repellent aspect of the article. Manufacturing has been decimated in America which leads to weakness, and dependency, leaches jobs and prosperity and turns us into a third world nation. It may be good for big business but that is not the important thing for the President to be promoting.
I think it wasn't Adam Smith, it was David Ricardo and the year was 1817.
The flaw in the FEE article is that what is going on isn't trade, it is international labor arbitrage, something unforeseen by Smith and Ricardo. Paul Craig Roberts has written about this.
Our trade rivals, particularly in Asia, have mastered a model where they keep their home markets restricted for their domestic producers by means of non-tariff barriers. This gives their producers are guaranteed market as they fight it out with American manufacturers for the American market. Our companies, without a guaranteed home market, are at a big disadvantage right from the start.
Countries have interests that go beyond getting the absolute cheapest price on consumer items. Our competitors understand this and as long as they can take good employment away from us and for their own citizens they will do it all that they can.
America's massive manufacturing capacity was once known as The Arsenal of Democracy. You better pray that we don't need it now or any time soon.
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