Posted on 03/31/2016 4:13:59 AM PDT by expat_panama
“It’s usually not a good sign when you see “American Thinker” at the top of an article on FR.”
You’re right, judging from so many responses such as yours, thinking is not an activity a lot of freepers put up with.
A borderless free market where poverty is free to spread all over the globe. A Free Traitors™ dream.
Actually, the free market raises countries out of poverty. Grab a Thomas Sowell book sometime, or Friedman...
“these communist countries”
They’re about as communist as we were back in the early 1900s when sweatshops flourished in the US. The immigrants that filled those sweatshops were quite glad to have those jobs.
We should not judge other societies and other times by our standards today.
And as an aside, China has taken to capitalism with a vengeance, they’re anything but communism. They have morphed into a single party, nationalistic dictatorship, much closer to fascism than communism. With the exception of Cuba and North Korea, I can’t think of any remaining communist country.
So, you openly pretend that people don’t work in inhumane sweatshops, that oh, by the way, ARE NOT similar to our factories in the early part of the last century.And to top it off, communism is dead? I think not....
Upside-down thinking:
The point is we ship out money, and ship in finished goods, instead of vice-versa. That’s not inherently bad, unless the money is actually worth more than the goods.
You’re right on the evils of governmental borrowing from foreign nations. That deficit is upwards of $7T (not sure exactly).
But how is that related to separate, freely chosen trade transactions between corporations?
We ship out money, jobs, profits, value of our money, economic strength, independence, sovereignty, etc. etc. etc.
“China is busy buying up American companies.”
Agreed that’s a problem. Policy must address why US companies and people are selling assets like this - like tax policy. BUT you can’t restrict entities from selling. That’s freedom.
Japan was a pretty big market in the 1930s, should we have had unfettered Free Trade with them?
You do realize you’re not making any sense, right?
Just checking...
Yet American people and corporations freely buy foreign goods. They see an advantage by doing that. How can the US govt restrict that?
I’m leaning Trump, and believe he could solve this jobs problem, but we all need to think about the dangers of tariffs.
Bull crap back atcha. You’re reading into Trump more than there is. He wants to bring manufacturing back to America by taxing us when we buy imports.
The most rational economic theory is that an economy is billions of people making trillions of decisions and transactions according to their own needs and perceptions and wants. No governing body can possible have enough information, or virtue, to control all that in any way that won’t harm it.
I am good with that. I want that. Slave made products should a have premium surcharge attached to them. Traitor blood money.
Would you rather have your purchases supply a living to a Jap or to an American?
I'm willing to learn. What are the other parts?
That may be what you want, but that is not what you will get. If you give up the sovereignty the US possesses and give the globalists free rein, then the rest of the world will have input.
And I guarantee the rest of the world largely supports socialism to a degree I think we can both agree we don’t want.
I don’t think the US should trade with enemies. I think we should trade with countries that share our values: Europe, Canada, Japan.
Your theory would work great in an IDEAL world where the US has no real enemies, and where there are no other governments in the world working to subvert true free trade AND the US.
Agreed.
I know someone who’s playing the shell game with credit cards. We’re doing it nationally.
De-regulation that favors huge corps that have dedicated lobbyists and lawyers.
Ending pay-to-play political system.
Force Europe and Asia to pay more for their own defense and less on their social welfare systems.
Reduce entitlement spending, and eliminate wasteful defense programs like the F-35, and spend the money on infrastructure like ports and bridges.
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