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To: NetRight Nation

Trade deficits have ruined our economy. If we had balanced trade or tariffs we would not be in hock to China for the Treasuries they obtain because we import more than we export. We don’t ship back gold to balance, we send other countries ownership of America.


10 posted on 08/12/2010 10:44:54 AM PDT by ex-snook ("Above all things, truth beareth away the victory")
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To: ex-snook

I’m not quite sure you understand what a trade deficit really is.


12 posted on 08/12/2010 11:10:25 AM PDT by NetRight Nation
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To: ex-snook
If we had balanced trade or tariffs we would not be in hock to China for the Treasuries they obtain because we import more than we export.

Wrong. If the federal government balanced its budget, there wouldn't be any Treasury Bonds for the Chinese to buy! Don't blame a trade imbalance for something it did not create.

14 posted on 08/12/2010 11:27:37 AM PDT by BfloGuy (It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
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