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Hillary Clinton Targets US Trade Gap
GLOBEANDMAIL.COM ^ | Feb. 11, 2005 | BARRIE McKENNA

Posted on 02/12/2005 3:39:03 PM PST by yoe

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To: Always Right
I think McCain could give her a run.

I question his health though.He looks like crap lately.

21 posted on 02/12/2005 4:46:32 PM PST by riri
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To: oceanview

If I wanted to vote for a Democrat like McCain or Giuliani, I'd go all the way and vote for Hillary.


22 posted on 02/12/2005 4:48:12 PM PST by MisterRepublican (Liberalism kills.)
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To: oceanview

For your consideration:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1339684/posts


23 posted on 02/12/2005 4:56:50 PM PST by KiloLima (Political correctness is the real quagmire...)
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To: KiloLima

Rice/Bush in '08 has a nice ring to it.


24 posted on 02/12/2005 5:27:11 PM PST by GoLightly
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To: PROSOUTH

Nobody was worried about the trade deficit all through the 90's either. Every month it jumped.


25 posted on 02/12/2005 7:23:46 PM PST by virgil
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To: yoe

That should shore up support for her here in Michigan, which cast its electoral votes for, uh, Kerry. Hillary must be a political genius. I'm sure the huge trade deficit the US has with China is meaningless.

Toyota and Honda both build autos in the US, while US-based automakers (and former US-based automaker Chrysler) build cars and make parts in Canada and Mexico, as well as the United States.

Next up, President Bush arranges for a major trade summit with European and Canadian leaders in Quebec. ;')


26 posted on 02/12/2005 8:24:39 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Ted "Kids, I Sunk the Honey" Kennedy is just a drunk who's never held a job (or had to).)
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To: oceanview; riri

Good points.

True, no candidate has yet emerged among Republicans, but that is obviously going to change, and I find it hard to believe that the Republican primary fight will feature as many candidates as the 2004 DP primary, or be as nasty.

Hillary is a liability for the DNC, and they must be aware of that. But with Howard "Yeow" Dean as the party chair, Right To Life now officially repudiated, and the party having had its ass kicked *again* in 2006, perhaps she will be rushed to the front as it were in a shallow effort to place the first woman in the presidency.

First she has to win the 2006 senate reelection campaign in the face of the possibility that A) she won't serve out her second term and everyone knows it, B) even if she lost a presidential bid, she will be expected to make one, meaning an absentee senator in a shrinking minority party, and C) if she wins the presidency a Republican could succeed her, growing the Dim Deficit by one more seat.


27 posted on 02/12/2005 8:43:48 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Ted "Kids, I Sunk the Honey" Kennedy is just a drunk who's never held a job (or had to).)
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To: yoe

The calculations continue.

Remember folks she is a lawyer and she has the training of a lawyer who knows how to play to the jury.

Never forget, for Hitlary it is all the politics of "Symbolism over substance."


28 posted on 02/12/2005 10:36:51 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: SunkenCiv
if she wins the presidency a Republican could succeed her, growing the Dim Deficit by one more seat.

She'll pick up right where she left off, with her buddies in Europe, attacking militias and right wing hate groups. Only this time she'll throw FOX News and Talk radio into the bag.

She'll work with Europe to, first, villify anything "right wing" (ie conservative) and then she and the our demon Euro "allies" will find a way to ban conservative, far right (meaning anything right of whackoism) parties.

That's my bet.

29 posted on 02/13/2005 8:26:40 AM PST by riri
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To: PROSOUTH
Maybe she should be blaming Bill Clinton for signing the NAFTA Bill that has moved all of the manufacturing jobs out of this country.

Did you notice in the article that 2.6 million autos were manufactured in Michigan last year? Do you think cars grow on trees?

30 posted on 02/13/2005 8:30:35 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: riri

On the obviously partisan Dim tv show, SNL, during last night's "Weekend Update", Amy P did the story about Hillary being the favorite for 2008 among Dims, saying that it was because they're looking for a new way to have their ass handed to them. The crowd erupted with applause. The same crowd had just had a similar response to a childish bash-bush "joke" from the reprehensible Tina Fey.


31 posted on 02/13/2005 8:39:20 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Ted "Kids, I Sunk the Honey" Kennedy is just a drunk who's never held a job (or had to).)
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To: 1rudeboy

Maybe she should be blaming Bill Clinton for signing the NAFTA Bill that has moved all of the manufacturing jobs out of this country.

"Did you notice in the article that 2.6 million autos were manufactured in Michigan last year? Do you think cars grow on trees?"

Great,But that was mainly from parts imported from Canada and Mexico. So your point is?

The trade deficit is from more things coming into the US than going out. We are down to 13% of US jobs in the manufacturing process and the ones that remain are mainly from assembly from imported parts.

As Ross Perot said about NAFTA, A giant sucking sound is all I hear.

If you read the article as you state, more cars were made in Canada than the US.



32 posted on 02/13/2005 9:31:17 AM PST by PROSOUTH ( Deo Vindice "God Will Vindicate")
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To: PROSOUTH
You're having trouble with facts. More cars were made in Ontario than in Michigan. And automobile manufacturers have domestic content labels . . . so your Ford built in Michigan might have less domestic content than, say, a Toyota built in Tennessee.

We are down to 13% of US jobs in the manufacturing process and the ones that remain are mainly from assembly from imported parts

Sure. "We don' make nuthin', nowhere, nohow." What a joke. Where do you come-up with this BS?

It might pain you to learn that our manufacturing sector has been expanding for 20 straight months, and we set a record for goods exports last year.

33 posted on 02/13/2005 10:07:09 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Toddsterpatriot

Check this out . . . one of our resident economics experts has chimed in. Do you still have that graph of goods production as percentage of GDP?


34 posted on 02/13/2005 10:13:05 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

Try telling that to the people in the US that are losing their jobs as plants close left and right and move to Mexico, Canada or China.

I don't have the reference handy but the percent of remaining jobs in the US that are manufacturing are only 13% of all jobs.

Do a search on TAA Dislocated Worker supplements to address your idea about increased jobs from manufacturing expansion. lol you need to wake up and look around.


35 posted on 02/13/2005 10:24:43 AM PST by PROSOUTH ( Deo Vindice "God Will Vindicate")
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To: yoe

I hope The RNC is painting a BIG "TARGET"on Madame DeFarge for the 2006 election!!!!!


36 posted on 02/13/2005 10:27:19 AM PST by bandleader
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To: vbmoneyspender

EXACTLY RIGHT!When BeelzeBubba was POTUS there was"A Crisis In Soshe Scurity"(I'm only pronouncing it like "Little Dick Gephardt"and"Dingy Harry").There isn't one now(seven-years later)because The Rats aren't in charge!!!


37 posted on 02/13/2005 10:31:43 AM PST by bandleader
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To: PROSOUTH

Tahat was called(by Dick(the toe-sucker Morris)"Triangulation"!!!


38 posted on 02/13/2005 10:34:43 AM PST by bandleader
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To: PROSOUTH

Here come the violins. Manufacturing employment is dropping world-wide, friend. Including China. Remember them? That's the place where allegedly all our manufacturing jobs went.


39 posted on 02/13/2005 10:35:09 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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40 posted on 02/13/2005 10:47:35 AM PST by Toddsterpatriot (Protectionism is economic ignorance!)
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