Posted on 06/16/2015 2:17:57 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
I’ve had it with my kids.
Whats the opposite of “free”, mr. Reich?
Something we are not allowed to acknowledge in our society is that, like everywhere else, we have a sector of our population that will be unable to do more complex jobs simply because they lack the intelligence and work ethic. We pretend, for the sake of political correctness, that everyone is born equal, and therefore everyone can be trained for any task. Any free trade agreement should face this fact head on, and not run with the fallacy that we simply need to throw money at an inefficient government training program.
Especially since the premise is that productive and self-supporting line workers can be retrained as nuclear physicists and computer programmers.
I don't take a word they say seriously anymore.
American workers are my brothers and sisters. Bangladeshi, Indonesian, and Chinese workers are not. It's that simple.
If that's "protectionism", fine. Make the most of it.
Lots of sloganeering, talking points, and magic words. Saying “Listen to what Limbagh, Levin, and Sessions say” is being treated like some kind of magical incantation that should end all arguments.
It doesn’t.
I respect them and hear what they say but I still do my own research and thinking. Its why I’ve reached the conclusion that the bulk of our trade problems begin and end within our own borders and have nothing to do with global trade. If we deal with our own domestic issues of over taxation and over regulation, we’ll be 80% of the way there.
No, we have an H-1b program to kill that poverty escape route.
You sound like a jingoist fool. and I love it.
United States, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, Canada, Mexico and Japan.
Embarrassed by Dems, Obama Turns to Boehner to Revive Trade Bill
Handed an embarrassing defeat by Democrats who smacked down his fast-track trade bill, President Barack Obama has turned to House Speaker John Boehner to resurrect the measure. [Full Story]
A doctor doesn’t let a patient die waiting for a cure.
Personally, I’m against illogical midgets and socialists.
I am a jingoist (I prefer “American nationalist). Not sure about the fool part...
Reich has been and will always be dishonest. This was a secret back room deal that smelled nothing of “free trade”. No wonder it was defeated.
I think the Munchkin may be right on this one.
You can only cry wolf so many times. For three decades now the American people keep being told over and over how THIS free trade agreement will launch our economy into spectacular growth, raising incomes and standards of living for all.
Apparently they’ve had it with Lucy yanking away the football. Thanks to the bozos who keep overselling these agreements, they may also be throwing in the towel on capitalism in general.
If Ross Perot had been sane he would have won that election.
I think the Munchkin may be right on this one.
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He does make a couple of good points. Free trade may be good in theory, but in practice it hasn’t worked as well. Add in a dishonest government that can’t be trusted, and people are going to start throwing up some opposition.
I don’t know of anyone who thinks the standard of living has gone up for the middle class in recent decades, and that’s inexcusable for a country like the United States.
Americans don't like this current bill because it is another 1,000 page, unread, hidden from the public, backroom monstrosity giving huge powers to the current tyrannical King wannabe while stripping the Legislature of Constitutional powers and it contains God-only-knows-what-else slipped-in surprises just screaming to be revealed from the secret process. In other words, it is a big, fat stinking turkey law just like Washington lately so loves to pass.
The others (Democraps and union bosses) are against it because it doesn't give them enough free sh!t, political control, and personal power and spend enough money to further expand their own kingdoms.
Hard to tell as I don’t think we’ve ever tried free trade. Just accepted a bunch of crony capitalist agreements intended to please donors from the Chamber of Commerce.
China will be added after.
Political elite flim flam to get it passed.
The fast track negotiating authority for trade agreements is the authority of the President of the United States to negotiate international agreements that Congress can approve or disapprove but cannot amend or filibuster. Also called trade promotion authority (TPA) since 2002, fast track negotiating authority is a temporary and controversial power granted to the President by Congress. The authority was in effect from 1975 to 1994, pursuant to the Trade Act of 1974, and from 2002 to 2007 by the Trade Act of 2002. Although it expired for new agreements on July 1, 2007, it continued to apply to agreements already under negotiation until they were eventually passed into law in 2011. In 2012, the Obama administration began seeking renewal of the authority.
There is no "free hand" for the president.
Paul Ryan: Voting 'yes' on trade won't give Obama carte blanche
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