Posted on 06/30/2015 12:35:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It is an economic issue, but it has ALSO become the biggest social issue. It’s the biggest enabler of big government.
Government sets the rules of the market place. It was government who lowered the import tariffs the founding fathers put in place that has caused our industries to off-shore and flooded our markets with imports. Government can fix that.
And government could eliminate all taxes and all regulations and we still wouldn’t be able to compete with $2/day chinese labor. Only restoring the import tariffs will restore American jobs.
It is an economic issue, but it has ALSO become the biggest social issue. It’s the biggest enabler of big government.
Government sets the rules of the market place. It was government who lowered the import tariffs the founding fathers put in place that has caused our industries to off-shore and flooded our markets with imports. Government can fix that.
And government could eliminate all taxes and all regulations and we still wouldn’t be able to compete with $2/day chinese labor. Only restoring the import tariffs will restore American jobs.
I’m not sure I would say Trump is my candidate. Trump is the only candidate that understands the trade issues at the root of our economic problems.
But he’s far from the social conservative I’d like. I’m just not convinced those posturing as the ultimate conservative are really the social conservative I’d like either.
Ditto.
Breitbart “got it”...and it’s why the leftwing communists could not allow him to continue.
To be accurate Trump has always said he is for traditional marriage. He is not a constitutional lawyer like Cruz so I;m not surprised that he is not dissecting the gay marrieage proposal.
I can throw lots of brickbats at Trump, but he might make a decent candidate for the US Senate or the New York governorship. He'd certainly be lots better than the Democrats who that state usually elects.
But what works in the DC-NY-Boston corridor doesn't work nationwide. People don't win races in Iowa, South Carolina, or even New Hampshire by running the way they do in New York, New Jersey, or Massachusetts.
The only good things I can see about Trump and Christie being in this race are 1) their brashness will make comments by hard-core conservatives seem less radical than they would be if Jeb Bush were the main moderate Republican running, and 2) Trump and Christie may well have the effect of dividing the GOP-e voters.
The GOP-e has done a great job in numerous elections of pitting numerous conservative candidates against each other, with the result that the least conservative major candidate comes out on top. Divide-and-conquer works. Doing a divide-and-conquer routine against the GOP-e could very well happen this year, and that's not a bad idea.
Same here.
Thankfully, I would know him or it, from a trash can set out in an alley.
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