We’ve been doing fast track trade agreements since Franklin Roosevelt was the president. Are you old enough to remember that administration, because I’m not. President Eisenhower was in his last year when I was born. You?
“We’ve been doing fast track trade agreements since Franklin Roosevelt was the president. Are you old enough to remember that administration, because I’m not. President Eisenhower was in his last year when I was born. You?”
Dear 2ndDivisionVet, and anyone else here.
I don’t want to argue.
I genuinely believe we all want the best for our country to survive and really thrive for eons to come.
To answer this latest post directed to me, detailed above:
Yes, I do know the country has used fast track trade agreements for the last 80 years.
I was born just two years after you.
It is a blessing and a curse.
Age, aches, pains and regrets do not trouble me anywhere as much as the fact that this country has never been so recklessly run as it is now.
Our current leader’s terrible decisions, behavior and lack of principle would appall Ike and I dare say, FDR.
Twenty plus years have passed since NAFTA and WTO major agreements.
I contend that our country has been hollowed out in millions of jobs and tens of thousands of manufacturers, due mainly to NAFTA and shipping of jobs to China, and other countries.
It has ruined us.
I truly do Not trust anyone currently in DC to ensure our middle class interests are of primary concern, as the senate crafts secret nuanced 800+ page trade agreements over the course of six years and now try to ram pass it.
These are different times than during Ike and FDR’S era.
As we’ve painfully learned, free trade is a far more complicated matter now and has irreversible adverse long term consequences to our country
that deserves full disclosure, discussion and consideration by the citizens who have to live with its consequences.
*last thing if I may -
Reagan warned us about the danger of eating our own and fighting among fellow conservatives.
So I’ll turn down anti-Cruz rhetoric that may alienate some of our FR community.
Let’s brainstorm about what we can constructively do next as Obola and TPP supporters (Paul Ryan?) regroup to pass TPP. I can call, write, donate, and will March if that will help.
We have done a great many things wrong since FDR.