Posted on 06/29/2016 8:46:20 AM PDT by Pudgebrownies7
Donald Trump took a decades-long Republican consensus in favor of free trade and discarded it like the garbage that formed the backdrop of his economic address Tuesday.
Free trade cannot be one-sided deals that benefit the other countries.
As the leader of the free world we could demand better deals, and we should.
What the republican party along with their neo-con artists, and open-borders toadies, and their democrat pals have done to this country is nothing short of criminal. If an occupying force had inflicted on us what they have, armed rebellion would have broken out years ago.
Free trade does not equal illegal aliens taking American jobs or outsourcing American tech jobs to India, which is what these people want.
Talk radio is one sided on this issue.
An 80,000 page “free trade” agreement is 80,000 pages of exceptions to free trade and set-asides for the politically connected.
Free trade deals should take one paragraph.
If a trade deal is thousands of pages, I don’t know what it is, but it isn’t free trade.
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No he discarded RINO trade not free trade.
As is typical of the leftist media, Hillary Clinton, and Elizabeth Warren, they make a blanket assertion, interpreting the statement their own way, to appear negative.
Trump favors free trade, but not the self-serving simple simon approach, but a deal that benefits the American people.
Instead, our current "free trade" deals benefit the GOPe, billionaires, and foreign governments much, much more than they benefit you.
The people of the USA depend upon their representatives to bring back fair deals, not self-serving negative overall economics. They take advantage of our ignorance to fill their own pockets.
Indeed. I had a chance to look over the NAFTA proposal that encompassed two thick books. Mind-numbing detail, but it didn't look too bad - until you got to the "Addenda", where just about everything that was pro-U.S. was modified out of existence.
Two of 'em that I remember was that Mexico could export any internal combustion engine to us (think auto manufacturing), but they only allowed importation of engines no larger than those on lawnmowers. The other was that their HazMat truck drivers to the U.S. had 10 years to comply with our regs, whereas ours had to meet the requirements NOW.
One pro-U.S. result was that after passage, Cargill, Tyson, et al could set up factories in Mexico, which wiped out the small corn and chicken farmers, who fled to Mexico City - and then the U.S. for jobs.
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