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George Washington was also a protectionist. Despite all of the economic experts who refuse to even consider it, protectionism worked out OK for Washington, no?
1 posted on 05/03/2016 8:35:47 PM PDT by Milhous
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To: Milhous

My only serious caveat with Trump, is that I wish he’d talk less about punitive protectionism, and more about free markets—lifting regulations and better enabling Americans to compete both domestically and abroad. Basically, more carrot and less stick.

He also needs to clarify that these ‘free trade’ agreements really have nothing to do with actual free trade, but are basically insider arrangements for connected cronies.


2 posted on 05/03/2016 8:40:26 PM PDT by Utmost Certainty (Our Enemy, the State)
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And it starts dripping - like Chinese water torture.

It’s going to be amazing to watch Trump take her down.


3 posted on 05/03/2016 8:41:23 PM PDT by dynoman (Objectivity is the essence of intelligence. - Marilyn vos Savant)
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“Despite all of the economic experts”

Their just one part of the globalist enterprise that forces the taxpayer to pay for subsidizing overseas third world nations while they invest in the companies that make billions off of our largess.


4 posted on 05/03/2016 8:41:59 PM PDT by MaxistheBest
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For Trump, the road to 270 runs through the Rust Belt: MI, OH and PA.

Win those states and you get to the WH. All the rest is icing on the electoral cake.


5 posted on 05/03/2016 8:42:59 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Milhous

I think Clinton is extremely vulnerable on women’s issues as well.

1) Trump should hit her for remaining totally silent on the Muslim rapefest in Europe.

2) Hit her on remaining totally silent on the report that 60-80 of women and girls are being raped on their way to the US across the southern border.

3) Hit her on remaining silent about as many as 500,000 women and girls here in the US are facing female circumcision.

4) Hit her on her defense of a child molester, getting him off with a slap on the wrist, after dragging the 12 year old victim thru the mud.

5) Hit her on running the Bimbo Eruption team, and how she deliberately ruined the reputation of the women who were abused by her husband, including having them audited by the IRS.

I’m sure there a lot more things, but this could be a start.

The object would be to keep Clinton always on the defensive, make her respond to every one of these, over and over again.

We’ve seen how Trump was able to dispatch multiple opponents, and Hillary is just one.


6 posted on 05/03/2016 8:44:11 PM PDT by euram
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Personally I don’t find it valid to attempt to encapsulate an entire area of law or commercial practice into a single word “protectionism”. Any more than “racist”.

You want to see a blazingly protectionist country? Try China. Tariffs on imports far more onerous than we have. You want to build stuff there? Fine, give us the blueprints. Or we’llk steal them and any other intellectual property we want. Copyright? What’s that? Thanks, Boeing. Thanks, Fellowes, by the way, we’ve decided to take the factory you built. And your patents and manufacturing dies. Hope that’s OK with you.


8 posted on 05/03/2016 8:45:43 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I apologize for not apologizing.)
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Americans have sat by over the last 30 years and been told that manufacturing jobs leaving the country are good for the country. That we’re a post manufacturing culture. That China thriving while we decay is good for us. That we get cheaper products. But yet in the long run we’re worse off.


9 posted on 05/03/2016 8:46:32 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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some article said he was being sexist because her HUSBAND passed that and not her.

But everyone who is still breathing knows the power she had in that marriage.

So it’s fair game


10 posted on 05/03/2016 8:47:31 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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I think Trump wins on immigration, foreign policy, taxes, the 2nd amendment, and education too.

Finally, two words: Rudolph Giuliani.

If he can be elected mayor of NYC then Trump has a chance in NY State. They are very similar guys in some ways. If Trump wins NY PIAPS has no path to 270 electoral votes


11 posted on 05/03/2016 8:49:39 PM PDT by Fai Mao (Just a tropical gardener chatting with friends)
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Trump needs to do TV on this issue: Run Hillay’s TV piece on eliminating coal mining jobs & the entire coal industry in Ohio, W. Virginia, Virginia, & Pennsylvania. He goes a long way in getting Ohio & Virginia back, then along with Florida, he might be able to steal Pennsylvania...then he wins.


12 posted on 05/03/2016 8:57:18 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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GHW Bush set up NAFTA with all of his cronies....Clinton got elected and said “That’s Cool” and signed it.

Here is Ross Perot on just exactly this in 1992 Clinton/Bush/Perot Debate....2-way street:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkgx1C_S6ls


14 posted on 05/03/2016 8:57:25 PM PDT by Be Careful
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To: Milhous
This isn't about being an protectionist, it is about retaining U.S. sovereignty.
20 posted on 05/03/2016 9:45:36 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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The most vulnerable place is her lack of honesty.

“Crooked hillary”

65% of the American people believe she isn’t truthful and is quite corrupt, and this is without him pointing her obvious shortcomings out.

Crooked and confused will be branded on each cankle by the time she accepts the nomination.


24 posted on 05/03/2016 11:08:21 PM PDT by Lakeshark (One time Cruz supporter who now prefers Trump. Yes, there are good reasons.)
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To: Milhous

This modern wave of globalism is totally strange to American history.


25 posted on 05/03/2016 11:18:26 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: Milhous

I heard it, did you?

29 posted on 05/04/2016 1:07:48 AM PDT by Veracious Poet (May God Bless America (again)
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To: Milhous

The Wicked Witch of Chappaqua is vulnerable in MANY areas.


31 posted on 05/04/2016 1:20:24 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hey now baby, get into my big black car, I just want to show you what my politics are.)
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