Trump’s 757 and Trade Deficit Realities

The American Thinker ^ | December 13, 2016 | C. Edmund Wright

[usconservative]

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[central_va]

Gee Trade deficits aren’t bad? Really? WTH? Like explaining why bleeding to death isn’t bad.

[central_va]

What can’t they understand there is a difference between an American company that moves out of country specifically to get cheap labor and then imports it into America and a company that just imports.

That is the lynch pin of "Free Trade". If a Free Traitor™ admitted there was a difference he'd hang himself.

[central_va]

So was George Washington intellectually deficient when he signed the first tariff act into law?

[central_va]

Agriculture is not he dame as mining or manufacturing. We don’t have the right climate for good coffee growing.

[SMM48]

What are we saying here, that the FR needs to ban anyone who opposes buying foreign made jet engines?

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.

[trisham]

Quite some time ago:

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:cedmundwright/index?tab=comments;brevity=full;options=no-change

[odawg]

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.

[expat_panama]

1...please explain to the group why trade deficits are bad --

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?

[odawg]

“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.

[CodeToad]

“Are we together on this? “

No, because that was ignorant screed at best. Heck, you spell like a third grader.

[expat_panama]

whenever you buy a product made offshore, the money and the job goes offshore

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.

[expat_panama]

whenever you buy a product made offshore, the money and the job goes offshore

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. 

[trebb]

--but in today's current site even the idea of just renegotiating NAFTA (forget the 35% tariffs) is gone. What we can say is that if anyone doesn't like Trump, all they have to do is wait a few hours.

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?

[expat_panama]

...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.

[odawg]

“...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.

[trebb]

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.

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.