Posted on 06/12/2015 2:56:24 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
I think there is some industry specific reason for this.
King want to offload as much Corn on to the world market. Him and Chuck Grassley want their land to double in price. They are always hawking ethanol in fuel on twitter.
Vitter wants the same with sugarcane and oil.
Whereas the nerds like Cruz, Ben Sasse, Paul Ryan and that used Car Salemsan Jeb Henriquez Hensarling think its hipster to support trade.
http://americasvoice.org/blog/gop-senators-sessions-and-vitter-will-lead-fight-against-immigration-reform/
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So now even selling overseas is bad?
Yes, that’s what the idiot is saying.
If you have no capital, on the other side of this you will be living like a third world wage slave.
I don’t think even Bernie Sanders is that communist.
So there is no foreign trade without TPP or TPA?
We can’t want a month to read the bill. We can’t want 18 months for Obama to be gone?
Especially if we’re shipping grain to his beloved Cuba, China, Russia or DPRK.
The only real market left for the coal you put in your screen name is overseas, Einstein.
Personal attacks and paranoid theories are never good debate tactics. If you use such tactics, people assume that the facts of the matter must be against you.
Pretty much every thoughtful American favors free trade. International trade has made America the largest economy in the world for the last century.
We can debate some trade issues and deals but the wisdom of free trade as a goal is beyond dispute. Trade barriers always hurt more people than they help.
Im a big supporter of Steve King and David Vitter. Others attack him because he voted for the farm bill and ethanol subsidies.
Im trying to explain why Jeff Sessions(80%) is often seen as more conservative or trustworthy than Ted Cruz(100%).
I was reasonably early to call out Cruz arch nemesis Scott Walker for being weak on immigration.
Possibly they are dim bulbs but have lots of character?
I mean, the consensus is that some of these guys and gals could not decipher the trade bill contents in the secret room, without staff, pens and paper, a cell phone. The rest couldn’t have possibly read it.
Seriously, who would ever vote for this dog unless they didn’t read it, or didn’t get-it? It caught even some of the smart ones with their pants wrapped around their head, imho.
My governor has made lots of foreign trade deals with equitable outcomes. All governors do it and most people aren’t even aware of it let alone know what’s in the deals. Every governor in the presidential race or potentially in the race has done it.
Did Obama get fast track authority today or not? Is it dead?
I think McConnell is still working out how to connect it to the senate bill and claim it has been passed.
Those who did NOT vote for free trade are not against trade.
That’s quite a loaded assumption that the “no” votes are strictly against trade. They were against Obama with his hands on the wheel and sitting in the driver’s seat, circumventing Congress, regardless of those so called “historical guarantees” that supposedly require him to go to the House and the Senate. LOL! They get to read and comment, all right, but that ends their clout.
The defenders of this dog don’t know what was in it and will not know until after the beast passes, God forbid. Dims the rules.
Chances are that even more will vote against it next week, I bet, once they pull their head out of their socks and check out all the asterisks and footnotes in it and the endless fluidity that goes with it, for Obama.
The radical form of Free Trade were we pay tariffs and nobody else does to enter our market is suicide. Off shoring out factories and idling 10% of our workforce is stupid. To compound the stupidity we let the multinational corporations import back to the USA duty free.
The USA was strongest pre 1950 when the USA was virtually self sufficient in manufacturing.
GloBULLism has enevated the manufacturing sector.
Corn is not king.
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