Posted on 01/19/2008 9:41:41 AM PST by pissant
Good point!
We have “Fair trade” with our ALLIES, NOT COMMUNISTS....they get the better part of the deal each and every time.
Interesting look back on Free Trade from the 1980s-90s....
Part1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GecyyDHmNg
Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxPigywkkKE
Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ2VvviC0PQ
Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZLpULKK6XQ
Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGVcTqaKUU8
Part 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSgdXlZIGx4
If one cannot learn from the JAPANESE example (our ally), then they are bound to make similar mistakes with Chinese (a Communist enemy) and trade.
“Nonetheless, when his government changed the rules for trade and didnt enforce the borders, the rug was effectively pulled from beneath him.”
International trade means that goods cross borders. It does not mean that people cross borders. It is one thing to compete with a Mexican worker in Mexico, and a very different thing to compete with a Mexican worker across the aisle. The border should be sealed. As clear as that is to me, I am amazed that some would nominate John McCain.
Bush 41 & 43 are trying to finish the job by anointing Willard (Bush III). The bad thing is that Rush is helping them.
Thank you for this link.
For Huckabee, I don't know what to make of him. He is a slick-Willard type and, apart from the life issue (which is extremely important), not really a conservative, but more palatable than McCain or Romney.
It would be satisfying to see a meltdown of the so-called "conservative" establishment - but please, not at the considerable expense of nominating John McCain.
Well then, what's that "Most Favored Nation" status they enjoy all about???
LOL Yea, kind of. The key is to block the Rockefeller types from continuing with Bush III. I have to do some more research on Huckabee. If he is reliably pro-life, pro-gun and anti gay agenda that's a good place to start. I heard Newt has started advising him. Newt has been a little flaky on some issues lately, but he does have a head on his shoulders. In general what I have observed is that Huckabee knows he doesn't know everything and finds the appropriate experts to help.
"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years' 'During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:
1. From bondage to spiritual faith;
2. From spiritual faith to great courage;
3. From courage to liberty;
4. From liberty to abundance;
5. From abundance to complacency;
6. From complacency to apathy;
7. From apathy to dependence;
8. From dependence back into bondage
- Alexander Tyler, Scottish History Professor, 1787
I'll keep an eye on the changing landscape for the primary in my neck of the woods and evaluate the options as this race progresses.
“Rush is a republican, not a conservative, like some of the posters on FR.
Wow, Rush Limbaugh is not a conservative. You heard it here first, folks!”
This is hardly the first time someone has said this. Rush himself has admitted not only that he is an entertainer, but that he’s been known to carry water for candidates and issues he didn’t really believe in.
You are for Fred and yo tell pissant this. That’s the pot calling the kettle black.
That’s the problem. Who can win. We have been voting that way for a long time and America is losing it’s foundation and issues and values and goals because of it.
Hunter brought all this back.
Well, I was wrong with the exception of Hunter who is a Thoroughbred; when I said they don’t run Jackasses in the Kentucky Derby.
That’s all I see now. And that goes for both sides.
What a mess.
Wouldn’t it be neat if we wrote Hunter in on the ballot for POTUS? There would be hope for America.
I am sorry he got out. He shouldn’t have and we shouldn’t have let him.
That's completely unrelated to Free Trade agreements. We have MFN status with many countries, but no Free Trade agreement.
As a matter of fact, I'd like to see a list of countries that we don't have MFN status with. I'd guess it's fairly short.
Cuba, I think is a gimme.
Us "hard-over" 100 percenters and "I want one just like me" conservative candidate seekers have a hard time with anything that doesn't put this exceptional country ahead of all others, in all things. You know how it is with us "true believers!" We git all carried away with our obsession with America and want to protect it because we believe it needs special standards of care!!! (they're not makin anymore Americas with freedom, these days)
MFN status really only means that you won’t impose special sanctions against a country that you don’t extend to everyone else in the absence of a special negotiated trade agreement.
A rule that says China gets hit with a 20% tariff on all its exports to us would be contrary to MFN status, unless we hit all countries with a similar tariff.
Theoretically, we could hit China with a 20% tariff and still have them in MFN status, if we did it with everyone else.
Free Trade agreements are different in that they require the nations involved to lower or eliminate tariffs between the two countries. Those supersede MFN status, and generally lower prices for consumers in both countries by removing, or at least reducing, the government taxes on imports and exports.
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