Posted on 12/13/2016 2:45:00 AM PST by expat_panama
When Donald Trump goes shopping for large aircraft, which he does from time to time, there is one item at the top of his "non-negotiable" list. Trump insists on British-made Rolls Royce turbo fan jet engines. He doesn't need to worry much about the interior, or even the cockpit windshield when jet shopping, as those refinements can be redone after he buys. (Both were redone, in fact, on the Trump 757.) However, the engines must be Rolls...
...Certainly those American workers would want the Donald to "buy American...
...British engines were merely part of an even more massive American jetliner project, assembled by American workers, and sold by an American company, for an American profit...
...A Trump-style tariff placed on Rolls in the 1990s might have been cheered, but it would have likely prevented the company from having many of the seven thousand employees they now have in this country...
...this is how trade balance accounting works...
...first thing that happens to that ship carrying Chinese steel is that a highly paid American Harbor Pilot...
...this steel is just getting started. When it arrives at a plant, in America...
...bottom line is that manufacturing overall is not being "hollowed out" by trade...
...America actually manufactures more than ever today, but it simply requires fewer people...
...stop obsessing over China, Mexico and Japan. Focus on making the rust belt areas more like the booming South...
...his campaign focused more on threats and tariffs, and those were the very talking points that super charged many of his supporters. If the Trump administration can do the former, then in time no one will care about the latter, or about China, or Mexico. That would help make America great again indeed.
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Gee Trade deficits aren’t bad? Really? WTH? Like explaining why bleeding to death isn’t bad.
That is the lynch pin of "Free Trade". If a Free Traitor admitted there was a difference he'd hang himself.
So was George Washington intellectually deficient when he signed the first tariff act into law?
Agriculture is not he dame as mining or manufacturing. We don’t have the right climate for good coffee growing.
No, I'm saying that on any subject, the guy is an a-hole. He likes to think he is an authority on every subject. Just ask him, he'll tell you. If you question his opinion on anything, be prepared for a barrage of insults.
Therefore, IMHO, he has no credibility, no matter what the subject. I stand by comment that he is a certified a-hole.
Quite some time ago:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:cedmundwright/index?tab=comments;brevity=full;options=no-change
The context was manufactured goods, where we have a choice of manufacturing and buying inside the United States or another country — consumer goods. Obviously, coffee growing is an exception. There are always exceptions. You don’t make policy based on exceptions.
odawg 22...why are all nations seeking to avoid trade deficits and correspondingly trying to get the upper hand in trade deals?
26...Yeah, that was my question too
odawg 30...whenever you buy a product made offshore, the money and the job goes offshore
39...All that Juan can do with his dollars is buy American food from an American
odawg 48...The context was manufactured goods...
Huh. We'd started out talking about the entire trade deficit but now we're talking only about manufactured imports. Are we no longer talking about trade deficits because we agree they don't matter?
“Huh. We’d started out talking about the entire trade deficit but now we’re talking only about manufactured imports. Are we no longer talking about trade deficits because we agree they don’t matter?”
You have completely lost your mind. The imbalance of imports over exports causes trade deficits. You export, import manufactured goods. It is not importing commodities that has caused our trade deficit.
“Are we together on this? “
No, because that was ignorant screed at best. Heck, you spell like a third grader.
dollars is buy American
ignorant screed
This idea that my being a bad guy somehow prevents the dollars from buying U.S. stuff is toxic. Let me know if you ever rethink this.
dollars is buy American
You have completely lost your mind.
Same prob as in the prev. post, the toxic thinking that my being a bad guy somehow prevents the dollars from buying U.S. stuff. A lot of it on the FR these days.
It ws on his 100 day agenda and I haven't seen where that has been changed. Instead of specifically stating "NAFTA", it said:
* FOURTH, I will direct the Secretary of Commerce and U.S. Trade Representative to identify all foreign trading abuses that unfairly impact American workers and direct them to use every tool under American and international law to end those abuses immediately
Does it really have to keep restating each of the areas he promised or is a broad-blanket policy good enough for us to assume he meant and means it?
The fact that you're asking me suggests you don't know any more than anyone else does. My take is what we do know is that he's familiar w/ econ activity and in the past things tended to go well when he was invlolved. So we got reason to hope.
“...the toxic thinking that my being a bad guy somehow prevents the dollars from buying U.S. stuff. A lot of it on the FR these days.”
Yeah, they are buying U.S. stuff, like Hollywood, huge tracts of land, real estate, etc. Your thinking, or my thinking, has absolutely no impact of how China spends its dollars.
Ya can't know until you actually know - paying attention to him since the election, I have decided we have tangible reason to be hopeful.
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