Rick may be good about social issues but he hasn’t a clue about economics. You can’t have a president who doesn’t understand economics at a time of high recession. If you want four more years of joblessness and misery, by all means elect Rick Santorum.
Rick Santorum has a long history of protectionism and coddling union thugs, including getting the steel tariffs through (which harmed the US economy but made life gravy for Leo Gerard, the Canadian communist who heads the United Steel Workers Union and is a top advisor to Obama). Santorum opposed Pat Toomey in favor of Arlen Specter, the Pennsylvania Senator who provided that 60th vote for Obamacare. Most of all, Santorum voted against NAFTA - a dumb move if there ever was one, given that trade has expanded to ten times its pre-NAFTA level. He also voted against national Right to Work leislation, which right now enjoys over 70% support among Republicans in Minnesota who are scheduled to vote on a State Constitutional ammendment on that issue.
Rick Santorum also proposes centrally planned industrial policy that is government statism. All it will amount to is more crony capitalism. Santorum is a big government and big labor guy.
I don’t see how he can claim to be a TEA party candidate.
Then vote for Romney
Hey, I agree with you, Doll. But you're mighty brave to write that on FR where, for all too many, freedom ends with trade.
It’s about time someone starts stating Rick’s past voting record.
Since Santorum voted against NAFTA then Now I will be glad if he wins. Go Santorum!
You cannot seroiusly be for NAFTA can you?
Most of our high tech and manufacturing jobs have been offshored.
Already the U.S. cannot even manufacture thousands of Products that China can. Pretty soon the U.S.A won’t be able to manufacture any product. Don’t believe me then read this article from Forbes which I excerpted at the bottom of this post.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/08/17/why-amazon-cant-make-a-kindle-in-the-usa/
The U.S.A is in serious trouble. We need to do something and limiting the number of China products being imported is the key solution. Do any of you believe the U.S. won’t collapse under this mountain of Obama debt? Can any one answer?
Look 20 years ago, 99% of China people were living as they did 1000 years ago and the U.S. was far above any country in technology and manufacturing. Now China has left the U.S. in the dust in technology and manufacturing. This is what “free” trade with China has done: here is a short example that shows the problem:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/08/17/why-amazon-cant-make-a-kindle-in-the-usa/
Amazon couldn’t’t make a Kindle here if it wanted to
Decades of outsourcing manufacturing have left U.S. industry without the means to invent the next generation of high-tech products that are key to rebuilding its economy, as noted by Gary Pisano and Willy Shih in a classic article, “Restoring American Competitiveness” (Harvard Business Review, July-August 2009)
The U.S. has lost or is on the verge of losing its ability to develop and manufacture a slew of high-tech products. Amazon’s Kindle 2 couldn’t be made in the U.S., even if Amazon wanted to:
* The flex circuit connectors are made in China because the US supplier base migrated to Asia.
* The electrophoretic display is made in Taiwan because the expertise developed from producting flat-panel LCDs migrated to Asia with semiconductor manufacturing.
* The highly polished injection-molded case is made in China because the U.S. supplier base eroded as the manufacture of toys, consumer electronics and computers migrated to China.
* The wireless card is made in South Korea because that country became a center for making mobile phone components and handsets.
* The controller board is made in China because U.S. companies long ago transferred manufacture of printed circuit boards to Asia.
* The Lithium polymer battery is made in China because battery development and manufacturing migrated to China along with the development and manufacture of consumer electronics and notebook computers.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/08/17/why-amazon-cant-make-a-kindle-in-the-usa/
How will the U.S.A defend itself if we don't have the ability to manufacture anything but are dependent on evil communist China who has already destroyed us economically with their economic war against the U.S? We need to be for America first. Say not to trade with other countries and say no to illegals.