Posted on 10/16/2017 12:07:04 PM PDT by TBP
“You’e simply wrong on that point, and the facts do not support you.”
Yes, they do support me, so there! Phhhht!
“We haven’t had free trades in office for a while.”
Well, since our economy has tanked for many years you just made my point. We haven’t had free trade and we are hurting, so how the hell can you traitors claim it helps??
Um. So if we put a complete embargo on all trade US citizen aren’t creative enough to build flat screen on their own?
We’ve never had more than one-way free trade. It’s a myth.
Before traitorous free-trade, we made the steel and sold it to China and Japan. Now we import from China and Japan.
Before free-trade, we have the computer programmers, no India does.
Before free-trade, we made plastics. Now we import from China and Mexico.
Before free-trade, we had 70 million of our people working salaried exempt professional jobs. Now that number is 24 million.
I could go on and on, but nowhere can you point to more high salaries and professional jobs after free-trade.
The big destroyer of jobs and salary levels is the massive invasion of low-skill illegal immigrants.
That is more the issue than trade. As far as trade goes, my three concerns are 1) unconstitutional multiparty trade deals that are forming a web of world government, 2) rival/enemies such as China taking advantage in our unbalanced deals, and 3) being nonstrategic in allowing critical industries to leave our country while we import things such as bugged electronics and unsafe food.
Kick out the illegals and deal with those three things and our economy and trade will be fine.
Free trade is also the reason they’re filling our country with Mexicans and Chinese and Africans. They were they were tired of having to move the factories to the workforce now they’re moving the cheap foreign workforce to the factory....here.
Free trade is a slave working on an Indonesian fishing boat for a dollar a day maybe and someone at Whole Foods being offered that fish for sale for $28 a pound
“US citizen aren’t creative enough to build flat screen on their own?”
The traitors claim that, absolutely. They claim we “don’t want to”. They claim we want a good wage but paying Chinese children is better somehow.
“Free traders in a mercantilist world are suckers. We call their countries colonies, eventually.”
And we call Free-Traders, Traitors.
It’s like going to war with nothing but a white flag. You will be raided and dismantled by the other countries of the world.
The problem with you is that you aren’t a good world citizen. /sarc. Now go eat your cup of rice and fish head.
What happens when the U.S. plant churns out so many $32.50 toasters that everyone who wants one has three of them? That’s a bigger problem here than most people realize.
What happens when the U.S. plant churns out so many $32.50 toasters that everyone who wants one has three of them? That’s a bigger problem here than most people realize.
Free Trade had a thirty-year test drive in this country.
Last November the voters took the keys out, handed them back to the salesman and said “no sale!”
If you ask them if the voted for Trump THEY NEVER ANSWER.
Free trade is in moral and illegitimate when the country being used as the workforce has slavery or a near condition, abject poverty and no environmental rules.
Free Traders would not agree that it’s wrong to sell lampshades made in a Nazi death camp as long as the Jews were paid $0.50 a day. Nothing in the free Trader philosophy would prevent that. They sell Us North Korean made products today.
The largest market in the world, BY FAR, is the US.
We have a long ways to go before it’s saturated with US goods.
We did. Our economy is now seven times larger than it was when Jimmy Carter left office. And we manufacture more products now than ever in our past.
I suspect we’d still have 45 million people out of work even if the U.S. conducted no trade of any kind with any foreign countries.
So punish the practitioners of slave labor. Don’t abandon what works because of one case. Free trade helps build everyone’s economy.
Slave labor isn’t free trade. You impose sanctions to force the violator back into compliance with the norms of trade.
IF we hadn’t off shored so many industries( to many to list) how much large would the economy be? It would be huge.
The only reason for trade is to get bananas that we can’t grow here, are Japanese car because that’s what I want or maybe that I want to enjoy Irish butter.
But societies and economies can easily exist within themselves. The proof of this is that eventually planet. So obviously if free trade won’t work for a nation, it wouldn’t work for planet either, the free Traders merely want to substitute one group of people for a bigger group of people and pretend that somehow it’s different. If a planet can sustain an economy so can a nation.
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