Posted on 01/09/2017 5:31:31 PM PST by WatchungEagle
A couple of years ago, free trade was seen as a key principle of the Republican Party. Then Donald Trump became the Republican nominee for president, and things got more complicated.
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Note: I'm not taking a position on this issue, I honestly don't have a strong opinion about it. I can see both sides. But I think it's important that everyone have accurate information about history.
PRAISE JESUS!!
What I personally loathe is when people describe choosing to surrender in a one-sided trade war as ‘free trade.’
the good old days
“Free Trade” Deals like NAFTA and TPP are Government Managed Trade, not “Free Trade.”
Norman Rockwell. Social justice warrior circa 1917.
Who-hoo! A Century! Seems we haven’t exported much since then anyway. Might as well try something new, like putting America and Americans first!
They define the phrase "crazy left."
Screw’m..... If you can’t build it here.
Well, you don’t need it.
free trade was seen as a key principle of the Republican Party.
NO IT WAS NOT, it was and always as been the wet dream of cultural marxists pushing for a one world government.
Trump’s trade policy has gotten commitments for billions of investments totaling over 60,000 jobs, including two billion dollar car plants that the wise pundits proclaimed were “never coming back”. And he’s not even in office yet. The GOP-e never gave a damn about American workers.
Many people do not realize that “Free trade” was the slogan of the British East India Company seeking too maintain its sales of opium into China against the will of the Chinese government.
Two Opium Wars were fought over this, and it still has repercussions today, because China has a long memory.
They tried to pay back America by creating a million heroin addicts in Vietnam.
Now they are a crucial supplier of many of the raw materials for heroin, speed and ecstasy as well as a primary shipping conduit for all hard drugs to America.
Free trade is nice but a fully employed work force is better!
What good is having low cost goods when no one can still afford them!
and .. PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME!!!
Today, I saw somebody talking about what is going to happen when Trump takes office; the end result was: the left is hyper-ventilating because they are REALLY afraid that what Trump plans to do with the economy is going to end up the way the economy ended up under Reagan: A BOOM-TIME to the economy. So, the left is saying Trump is going to “destroy”, when actually they are terrified of another Reagan boom.
This is why people need to pay attention to what the left is saying .. and then investigating why .. because the “why” of the left .. always tells us who they really are. Rush explained it all today .. it was awesome.
As Trump has indicated, free trade does not necessarily mean win / win deals.
Well, whatever it takes to MAGA.
so true!! thank you for sharing. The left should be in catatonic stooper of fear. Trump has already brought a million jobs back to this Christian nation. He is about to lower the boooom on illegal aliens and “ refugees. WE ARE GETTING A HUGE TAX CUT!! the communist are finished in the country. We got OUR country back!!
“Note: I’m not taking a position on this issue, I honestly don’t have a strong opinion about it.”
I agree...free trade has its benefits to consumers with well paying jobs - if trade wars materialize, look for prices to double (at least) for most things at Walmart and Amazon, for example. This will bite people hard further down the economic ladder.
On the other hand, the economy will adjust and well-paying jobs by the millions will be created here, so lots more people can move up.
The key variable is WHAT ELSE will be done. If you do nothing about the state of regulations in this country and the power of labor unions, then people here will suffer BIG TIME as they lose access to foreign-made goods. Thankfully Trump appears to understand that, so he’s going to work that angle too. It’s important for people on our side to understand that the reason so many US companies off-shore is NOT to get exotic trips to China...that’s the last thing executives want to be wasting their time with, not to mention the risks of being arrested due to business partner’s complaint over there (in China) or being kidnapped (Mexico and elsewhere). They ONLY go there because they cannot afford to build things here, given the costs from regulations and unions...so hopefully that all gets fixed.
On the balance, I kind of get concerned when we cannot run our tractors to harvest our crops without spare parts (electronics and probably other stuff) from China, or cannot replace a large power transformer, without transformers from China, and likely cannot build war ships, battle tanks, or fighter jets without foreign parts...so we DEFINITELY need to at least get that capability back home.
Our freedom and survival of our nation is the goal. Trade is a tool. I do not support any trade policy that works to make American liberty subverted to foreigners.
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