“Trade” is an anachronism.
Yeah, just for those that want to work hard, be productive and be REAL AMERICANS. Yes, that does leave out the bums, losers, professional welfare recipients, illegals and other criminals. Must be discrimination, huh?
nyt is lies and leftist propaganda.
The more jobs are temp and part-time jobs.
If China and Japan played by the rules, there would still be a problem. The bottom line is that Milton Friedman was right. In return for our paper they send us relatively well made manufactured goods that are relatively cheap to the American people. Eventually those dollars must be used.If the US were disciplined and did not run huge deficits, the Chinese and Japanese would be forced to buy international products and the money would return. eg the Chinese sell the US flat screen TVs and cell phones, they buy oil from thee Saudis, the Saudis in turn buy American wheat, real estate and software etc. The problem is that with running deficits the money is recycled back to the US in the form of loans that finance consumption, not investment. Jobs are lost and the US standard of living declines. The real fault lies in our own consumptive deficit spending behavior.
1. Consumers want to pay as little as possible for what they buy.
2. Workers want to get paid as much as possible for what they produce.
Every single decision made by governments and businesses relates in some way to dealing with all of the complications that arise from these two conflicting realities.
Yeah, the same a-holes who championed the UN for ostensibly the same reason. How'd that work out? World gov't is their goal, and Western nationalism (especially in the U.S.) is their biggest obstacle. Hence their desperation to derail the Trump Train.
“Trade “ is just a euphemism meaning a global scheme for privatization of profits for political and economic elites, and socialization of the risks and losses to be borne by the rest of us.
I had to stop reading at about the third comment. These people make me crazy! They say robots are good and there will be jobs running, repairing, and programming them. For what used to be the work of one hundred men, there will now be a handful running the machines, a couple of teams repairing them, and no former workers programming them. But all the work handled by a small percentage of the number who were once employed.
And then they also say, well, there are service jobs and need for caregivers. Well, first of all, who can pay for the services and caregivers? A lot of that care was once given by relatives, who are now so busy trying to make ends meet while working 2 incompatible part-time jobs (thanks, Ocare), and maybe studying, if they still have energy. but it is a fact that people who work in service jobs and nursing can’t afford all that much service themselves.
I just really hate the utterly clueless stupidity of the people who say these things from their ivy towers. Smug condescending people who just can’t imagine why anyone would vote for Trump!
The TPP document is 6000 pages. Freedom does not require 6000 pages to explain.