Posted on 05/14/2007 7:54:55 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
I think with a vanishing manufacturing base, a trade deficit approaching 1 TILLION dollars a year, maybe we should think about buying from American companies.
Do some research. Ping me when you post it.
How much do we manufacture?
I already provided the answer.
Why don’t you tell us precisely how you personally benefit from the import-export situation with China.
Cool. More third world countries to move our jobs to so we can get more cheap stuff.
Sorry, you didn't provide any dollar amounts in the categories you mentioned. Try again?
Why don’t you tell us precisely how you personally benefit from the import-export situation with China.
Like all Americans, I benefit from the availability of cheap imports from many nations. I also benefit from American exports to other nations.
No. Real.
If they can’t sell to anyone - read: Colombia - they cannot turn a profit or hire people anymore. Let American companies sell more abroad and expand everyone’s pie!
They abdicated their oversight role with this decision showing that they all have the same masters IMHO.
We can either buy their cocaine or buy their coffee and flowers. Shut out their coffee and flowers and I guarantee you we’ll be buying more of their cocaine. Your choice.
Before NAFTA, GATT and the WTO, America was a bustling, self reliant industrial nation. The middle class was well employed. Entrepreneurs were a dime a dozen. Anyone who worked hard could raise above his natal station.
We are now being bled to death, selling our souls for the cheapest gadgets and empowering a Communist nation in the process. Coupled with the corruption of the public schools, higher education, the MSM, Congress, and a Globalist administration, we are now a brainwashed, manipulated sheeple rushing toward embracing third world ideals and our own ultimate destruction.
The only way back to sanity is to clean House, shrink government, home or private school, get our news from other sources, and ELECT LEGISLATORS WITH TRUE CONSERVATIVE , LOYAL AMERICAN PRINCIPLES AT LOCAL, STATE AND FEDERAL LEVELS.
We must also now choose the one statesman who embraces the Christian tenets embodied in our sacred documents; who possesses the vision, solutions, experience, love of country and the determination to restore her - Duncan Hunter.
GO DUNCAN HUNTER!
what are you referring to?
Natural resources and scrap metal?
Fast tract removes the constitutional requirement of congressional oversight.
They all get there money from the same multi nationals so they all like the same boots and to hell with America
Hey when we had a middle class and a decent economy and children that did not score at the bottom of the international educational scores we never would have agreed to a one world government which has always been the ruling elite's goal ( read that "new world order).
They need to drag us down to third world status and so far so good
Bump.
You think shutting Colombia out, impoverishing it, and making the only business worth being in cocaine is the way to fix things? I think you are mistaken. Shutting Colombia out is the worst mistake we can make.
The strategic picture is important, you would get some of that if you would click on the story, but here is some of it:
Colombia shares an eastern border with Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez. That’s who they’re stuck with as a next-door neighbor. If you think Mexico’s a bad neighbor, try Venezuela. Chavez’s leading an antiamerican alliance and sucking an average of two countries a year into its orbit. The countries he sucks in are economically very weak, and none have free trade.
Chavez regularly taunts Colombia, calling it a fool for being pro-American instead of antiamerican. He yells that Chavez is colombia’s only true friend and communism and protectionism (just like what you are preaching, with this sort of pastoral view of the past) are the only ways for colombia to prosper. If you are reading anything in the news, you know chavez with his protectionism is running venezuela straight into the ground.
But he has the upper hand when he tells colombia that it has more to gain from being america’s enemy than its friend and being america;s friend will only result in colombia getting screwed over.
With de-facto chavistas like yourself around, yelling about free trade, who is to argue with chavez? Chavez is right, to be america’s friend is to be screwed over.
I hope I don’t hear you whining about america having no friends, though.
Your views are exactly those of antiamerican hugo chavez, your arguments are identical.
Don’t blame free trade for the teachers unions and assorted leftists who have dragged standards down. Big Lefist Unions are all for halting free trade same as you.
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