Posted on 09/02/2016 5:37:37 AM PDT by impimp
First Trump had a great speech on immigration with his 10 point plan. It does look like he is going soft on deporting everyone though. Hopefully not as immigration softening is not good.
But now the bad news...Trump still hasn't embraced the wisdom of free trade. Make no mistake about it - just as prochoice = baby killing, fair trade = economy crushing protectionism.
Has anybody seen any sign that Trump is coming over to the free trade globalist camp? My only hope is that he will "soften" his position on trade deals just as he seems to be softening a bit on immigration.
I don’t understand; foreign access to our markets means the money flows from here to there. How does that help us grow our economic and military might?
By the way, IF as you say these ‘free trade’ agreements have SO helped the USA...show us...
Show us the nations who are buying more from us than we are from them under these agreements.
Show us.
We have a consumer surplus. In other words, we can buy more guns because we spend less on other things.
What I notice is that conservatives are now all over the map on trade. Personally I believe protectionism never benefits anyone; however, I am against unfair trade deals, such as the one we have with China. So while I am ideologically a free trader, I won’t get upset about some protectionism.
The one thing I fear is influence peddling that protectionism can create in Washington.
Amen!
It’s a COMMAND AND CONTROL ECONOMY by Globalist to eliminate their competition and pick winners and losers.
It’s sold under the Trojan Horse of “Free Trade”.
We only have “Fee Trade” between the States.
Trump hasn’t softened on anything, what shite!
As for trade, you are pushing sellout trade, where we purchase other nations products and services because we can’t compete with their cheap labor. So what is your answer to bring all those lost jobs back to the US, pay American workers $3.00 a day?
What exactly is your profession or business you own?
That's the same horseshit that was sold to us as to why we had to have free trade with China.
And what happened, instead of the Chinese becoming a more free and open society we became a more controlled, secretive and corrupt one.
The Chinese aren't our friends and never will be. They disdain American weakness and will use it to our detriment.
Lower corporate taxes and regulations. That is my solution.
Lower corporate taxes and regulations. That is my solution.
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As much as we favor both of those it will not change the fact nobody in the US is going to work for $0.17 cents an hour and those millions of American jobs lost to nations where workers earn a fraction of US workers would not return here by lowering corporate taxes and removing regulations. I doubt it is you don’t get that but that you continue to not want to address that because you know that is the reality this Marxist globalist free trade caused.
The job force is always changing. People panicked 100 years ago when agriculture started to be mechanized. Agriculture workers found other jobs. Same thing with globalization now. We WILL NOT be having manufacturing jobs in the future. We will have manufacturing, but there will be a significant reduction in manufacturing employment.
You obviously won’t address the issue in a honest way, this is nothing like agriculture jobs a 100 years ago or the future. 94+ million Americans without jobs now today. Jobs have left the US because we have terrible trade deals with countries who’s work force work for pennies per hr.
There are far more agricultural jobs today in US than 100 yrs ago BTW.
What is your profession or business you own?
Commodity trader.
Manufacturing and agriculture on a permanent decline because our efficiency and automation are increasing. Technology kills employment in those sectors. Until we ban robots and tractors this trend will continue.
I believe Trump can bring manufacturing back to the USA. I can’t believe he can bring manufacturing jobs back to the USA.
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