Posted on 06/08/2015 4:48:07 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
Ridiculous.
This country is going nowhere if we don’t get somebody in there that understands international trade.
Actually that’s not true. We are going to hell and we’re fast tracking it.
I’ve read all the posts and I’m just as confused about the bill as I was before :)
i’ll have to trust Cruz on this one as it is just over my head.
I’m not calling Ted Cruz a liar. I am saying I am unhappy with his support for the trade bill which I and many conservatives such as Mark Levin, Rush and Jeff Sessions are agains’t. It is not wrong to ask Ted Cruz to explain why he is going to vote for a big corporate/govt power grab. This TPP is NAFTA on steroids. If you loved NAFTA you will really love this one.
Vote for Hillary then, she’ll really fast-track it for you.
Mostly what that means is that the more labor intensive manufacturing jobs have been moved from the US to cheap labor nations. Jobs such as apparel, the shoe industry and many types of light manufacturing that were labor intensive are mostly all gone.
The manufacturing jobs remaining in the US are more automated and less labor intensive, and higher value added. So, of course manufacturing 'productivity' appears to have increased, but the question those putting out these stats never ask, let alone answer, is:
How much of the increase is due to productivity increases that occurred within the industries still in the US, and how much of the supposed increase just reflects the removal of the less productive, more labor intensive industries from the US and from the productivity computation?
Nothing about those stats change the fact that our trade policies have sent several million manufacturing jobs from the US to cheap labor nations, and about one in five of US Heads of Household are on one or more federal poverty programs.
HE HAS EXPLAINED IT!! Do we have to go over this again and again and again?
Cruz might be God and incapable of error to you. But let’s see what the trade agreement really says. We don’t need to fast track something that nobody has read.
Trump makes some great points in that article. It’s bad because we don’t have good negotiators in government. It’s bad because it doesn’t take currency manipulation into consideration. It’s bad because it treats all countries the same instead of allowing us to reciprocate against countries that don’t treat us right.
Trump points out the trade deficit just announced is one of the largest in years. Business as usual is not the right move.
I guess not. Some of us are for TPA and TPP and some of us are agains’t it. Put me in the nay column. Its a bad deal for America all the way around.
I agree with Trump and hope he gets into the race, but he is still shooting from the hip and will need to develop a few concise examples of more specific problems with past trade deals and the TPP once details are known.
Have no prediction whether he’ll enter the race.
Donald Trump Says He Would Threaten to Tax China 25%
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2698460/posts
Donald Trump: Chinese ‘Looking to Strip Us of Everything’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2666755/posts
Donald Trump: Oil warrior
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2702389/posts
Donald Trump Running for President of the United States (Good example of really bad writing)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2693630/posts
Why We Need Donald Trump
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2699093/posts
Donald Trump is Pro-Life. Laura Ingraham Show Interview. (Audio)
http://www.breitbart.tv/pro-life-donald-trump-would-eliminate-dept-of-education-impose-25-tax-on-chi | 02-09-11 | Breitbart
"Pro-Life Donald Trump Would Eliminate Dept of Education, Impose 25% Tax on China Imports if President. (A good start)"
Trump is taking a lot of flack, he must be over the target.
You’ve read it?
> This is not a Trade Agreement, it just gives the President authority to negotiate one that has to then be approved by Congress.
I don’t trust him to negotiate anything at all given his track record.
American-”based” manufacturing that is done in shops on foreign soil has repeatedly been passed off as American manufacturing by liars.
And everyone using the bandwagon approach with insults in politics is a liar.
> And tell me again ,how do congress critters get to be millionaires ?
Stuffed envelopes from lobbyists and Soros, being paid for influence, not paying taxes, etc...the norm...
I support Sen. Cruz- and I respect that you disagree with him on this issue. But, those of us who support and defend him, do so not on blind faith- but based on I what we know to be his core values.
If you have the time and inclination, please read “The Rise of Ted Cruz- The Absolutist”.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2014/06/23/rise_of_ted_cruz_the_absolutist_335174.html
The article recounts his record in college, as Texas Solicitor General, his supreme court cases, and his opposition to GOP leadership- all in defense of the constitution, doctrinaire conservatism and American sovereignty. Just facts– no puff piece from this liberal writer.
Ted Cruz is a true Patriot– and I think, the last chance we got.
By the way, I don’t completely trust Trump either. Scott Walker has a real record of cutting funding to useless bureaucrats and overpaid government employees. He’s credible on that, so for the main opposition against cutting big government spending, look for blowhards on a bandwagon.
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