Posted on 10/16/2017 12:07:04 PM PDT by TBP
That is a scurrilous lie, and I think you know that.
If that's what your case rests on, you have no case.
Exactly in the punishment is that they can’t sell their slave labor products in America.
The service economy has put us in debt to other nations. The plan didn’t work for most Americans. It did make some Americans rich, maybe the 1 percenters. De industrialization had some winners I will acknowledge that.
It’s absolutely the truth there’s nothing in the free-trade philosophy that would prevent products made in the Nazi death camp from being sold in America.
In fact it’s happening today North Korea has active death camps and concentration camps and we allow their products to be sold here.
To a free Trader it’s simply finding a way to build the product as absolutely inexpensively as possible. Free traders ensured that China got permanent most favored nation status and it was disconnected from their behavior.
If we stopped all trade the boom in construction alone would be huge. Wages would rise and their would be some inflation. But the economy would be going on rocket fuel. We’d have winners and more winners.
Nope. All the money that went into capital investment would instead have been wasted on higher priced American made goods, which lets be honest, were getting pretty shoddy back in the 70's. It was free trade that forced American industry to up its game and compete on quality and price. I lived through the 70's and in my opinion we were maybe a couple of business cycles away from losing the cold war during the Carter years.
“If you ask them if the voted for Trump THEY NEVER ANSWER. “
Yep, Hitlery voters. Anti-Americans. Anytime we get a company to come to or stay in the USA they claim it is bad for America. Anytime a company leaves the USA they claim it is good for America.
Tell it to the Japanese ...
Now, since I'm already replying to you I'll toss the following out for the Free Trade crowd and the Protectionist crowd to chew on:
I bought a beard trimmer at Walmart the other day. Getting past some variations in packaging, I had three to choose from. Brand "A" was made in China. Brand "B" was made in Taiwan. Brand "C" was made in USA. Price, for comparable packages, was around $40, with about a $5 spread. Not much of a spread ... and an easy choice to buy American. In that particular market, the choice by Brands A & B to manufacture overseas really didn't save them anything and lost them a sale. Make of it what you will.
A free Trader is not loyal to a nation, they are loyal to the business they work for above their Nation.
That’s simply a cold hard fact. They will damage their Nation to improve their bottom line, and then use sophistry type arguments to try to explain why it’s good for the nation.
What happens when the U.S. plant churns out so many $32.50 toasters that everyone who wants one has three of them? “
Then sell them overseas, but don’t demand the company leave the USA to make them elsewhere.
If you want to race to the bottom of economics, go live in a third-world mudhole.
“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!””
Exactly! We think the cheap imports make for a terrible economic vehicle!
No, government spending did that. And the service economy is only a fraction of our overall economy.
That’s exactly my point if you go to Germany, South Korea and Japan you see factories making all kinds of products right there at home.
They aren’t stupid.
Where do the Japanese get the energy to run their factories?
Nuclear power and oil that they import from somewhere else. There’s nothing wrong with importing things that you can’t produce.
It’s foolish to export all your Manufacturing
If protectionism is so good then all 50 states should adopt protectionist measures against each other.
Again, trade boosts all countries’ economies (including ours) and creates wealth, which is what it’s really about.
http://fortune.com/2011/06/22/how-free-trade-deals-create-u-s-jobs/
https://www.cato.org/publications/trade-briefing-paper/blessings-free-trade
https://capx.co/free-trade-doesnt-destroy-jobs-it-creates-them/
http://dailysignal.com/2011/08/09/how-free-trade-helps-employment-and-the-economy/
http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2012/10/protectionism-kills-jobs-as-demonstrated-in-chattanooga/
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-01/u-s-protectionism-kills-jobs-and-competitiveness
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0716/ponnuru070516.php3
The Constitution doesn’t allow that, and for good reason.
If free trade is so good everyone on your block should remove the front doors of their houses. The most skilled man should do all the work for all the houses on the Block the hottest wife should put out all the sex the best cook should cook for all the families.... how selfish to insist on one economic family unit being relatively independent
Japan is a nation.
Does Japan have sufficient domestic energy resources to sustain its economy?
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