[nathanbedford]

My point is that to accept Donald Trump's bumper sticker mentality is fatal to good policy. A globalist, what is a globalist? Every time we go to Walmart and buy a Chinese television are we not globalists? Every time we vacation on a cruise ship in the Mediterranean, are we not globalists?

Every trade deal is not, contrary to Donald Trump, a function of stupid American negotiators, it is the result of politics, interest group pressures, and a conscious decision by the administration which controls the negotiators to favor one sector in the American economy over a different sector. This decision is cold-blooded, it is not stupid.

If our negotiators make a deal that favors protecting Hollywood's output but sacrifices Detroit's output, that does not make the problem "globalism" it makes the problem political. But before we conclude that all American economic woes come from stupid trade negotiators, let us look at wrongheaded domestic policies like the highest income tax rates on the globe (to be a globalist about this discussion), intrusive government regulations (like EPA) and other regulations without end.

To get away from Trump bumper sticker con games we ought to ask ourselves some serious questions:

1. Is the problem really are trade deals, or is the problem internal domestic policy?

2. Do are trade deals overall benefit or hurt the American economy?

3. As bad as granting TPA authority to the Obama administration undoubtedly is, what was the alternative for the next six years?

4. What would Donald Trump actually do in the trade negotiations, which sector with the harm and which sector would he benefit, keeping in mind that he not only would preserve biofuels subsidies in Iowa to get elected there, but would increase them?

5. Considering his pandering to special interests in Iowa, are you not terrified at the prospect of Donald Trump making these decisions?

[Just mythoughts]

Until Chuck Grassley leaves the Senate nobody is going to end corn welfare. Cruz has done nothing to end the practice, except to promise something, down the road, he has no control over. Just like the sugar king, viagra, Bob Dole.

IF Cruz had any clout he would be doing his Senate job, NOW, instead of holding closet caucuses, church house sermonizing, and endless bitching about ol mean Donald Trump.

[MIA_eccl1212]

Every time we go to Walmart and buy a Chinese television are we not globalists?

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Sadly we are forced to support globalists, when we have no American manufacturers left to select from. We have taxed and regulated them out of business.

Same goes for computers, cars, refrigerators. The bad trade deals and exorbitant taxes and regulations are part of the self perpetuating tail chasing that our current trade and tax policy comprises.

The chief fuel for those trade deals is political payoffs to politicians on both sides of the aisle... and their constituent welfare programs, in populace or business.

those who want that to continue pursue and support globalism. those who want that to end, are called isolationists and xenophobes.

For the record:

• I am isolationist.
• I am Nativist.
• I am anti immigration, even when it may be legal.
• I am for closed borders, north and south.
• I am xenophobe and do not trust foreigners.
• I am anti Islam in all its flavors.
• I am for continuing displays of battle flag for the armies of Northern Virginia

NO Candidate agrees with my world view. No party does either. But for me, right now, at this juncture I support... well you know the rest.

[MichaelCorleone]

You are way off base, sister.

You’re one of those people who know ‘just enough to be dangerous’.