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1 posted on 11/02/2010 5:11:51 AM PDT by expat_panama
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I am all for free and unfettered trade, so long as our trading partners exercise the same policies. But China, India, and others do not.


2 posted on 11/02/2010 5:16:52 AM PDT by Thane_Banquo (Mitt Romney: He's from Harvard, and he's here to help.)
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To: Toddsterpatriot; 1rudeboy; Mase; AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; ..

The plot thickens....


3 posted on 11/02/2010 5:17:51 AM PDT by expat_panama
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Oh please. The next you know we will be told that NOT subsidising corporations is “anti-business”


4 posted on 11/02/2010 5:20:02 AM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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To: expat_panama

Everyone has a different definition of “free trade.”

I, for one, support penalizing a company with a tariff if they are HQ’d in America, selling at a profit mainly to Americans, and enjoy a stable society in which to plan and enjoy business thanks to the US taxpayer...who then fires all their American employees and hires them overseas at a fraction of the cost.

And before you go on about your “broken window” theories and how they are just responding to excessive taxation and fines...I’m aware of all that. I’ve studied this situation for years.

Free trade begins at home. If a government is punishment business for whatever reason (Al Gore and his eco-fascists or whatever), that is NOT free trade.

But I am so sick of offshoring and on-shore offshoring and watching good people get canned because they dared to follow the American dream and work hard and capitalize on their skills and who dared to adopt a non-third-world living standard that I’m ready to tell those companies either go to Hell or charge them so much it is no longer profitable to fire Americans just to tweak their bottom line.


8 posted on 11/02/2010 5:30:32 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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Those agreements are on a short list of priorities the White House has in common with GOP leaders.

Right there are two of the biggest hurdles that must be eliminated if we ever hope to put America back on the track to success:

- The current White House resident and his comrades

- Current GOP Leaders


9 posted on 11/02/2010 5:31:43 AM PDT by Iron Munro (This is our culture; fight for it. This is our flag; pick it up. This is our country; take it back.)
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To: expat_panama

Indeed part of the deep appeal the Tea Party has, is that they do NOT represent the globalist, America-last RINOs.

America FIRST.

No more outsourcing. No more “globalism”.

America.


10 posted on 11/02/2010 5:32:04 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (GOP establishment are dinosaurs. Tea Party is a great big asteroid...)
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Fortune’s concept of a pre-election Tea Party hit piece? Every wrinkle in the road is being thrown at the Tea Party while they cower from Lord Obummer. Horse Pucky! Tea Party is and has always been “Lets get our Federal Government to do the things it’s supposed to do not the things it decides to do.” International trade agreements and working to make America come out on top appears to be something they are supposed to do. The how starts in January or maybe April after some much needed house cleaning...


14 posted on 11/02/2010 5:39:57 AM PDT by Steamburg (The contents of your wallet is the only language Politicians understand.)
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Tariffs and duties should be to raise revenue, period. The lose cost of imports helps keep me in business. I don’t want to become unemployed because knuckleheads think that subsidizing overpaid union thugs is patriotic.


15 posted on 11/02/2010 5:41:00 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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It's quite a leap of faith to go from:

"Trade and Tea Party: Not exactly a happy couple"

To

"Republicans have proven more inclined to register protectionist sentiment."

And what I'm talking about, it took two people - Tory Newmyer with Jennifer Liberto (FORTUNE Magazine) to come up with that leap of...tripe.

I looked all OVER my ballot and did not see the word "Tea" anywhere on it. And insofar as all Republicans are not part of the Tea Party Movement, and all Tea Party folks are NOT Republicans, that's a S T R E T C H for Tony and Jenny to make.

Hey guys...the election is TODAY...to late for your little TPM haymaker to even come close to working.

But the TPM lives rent free inside liberals' heads. There were some signs at the recent rock fest in DC that indicated that some liberals will never dring tea again because of the TPM...too funny. But it's been said that liberalism is a mental disease...and I believe it.


16 posted on 11/02/2010 5:43:51 AM PDT by FrankR (November 2nd is NOT an election - it's a RESTRAINING ORDER.....VOTE!)
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Lol, people who support all these one-sided trade deals always work the slur word “protectionist” into their articles as often as possible, just as the Reverends Jesse and Al drop the “racism” accusation every other sentence.

Some things never change, but the great unwashed have caught on to the fact that these one-sided trade agreements are nothing but a sell out of the US for the benefit of a few. It’s long past time that the US stopped opening its markets to nations that use every trick in the book to keep theirs closed.


19 posted on 11/02/2010 5:47:47 AM PDT by Will88
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We can huff and puff and beat our patriotic chests, but at the end of the day, tariffs are taxes, and just like other business taxes, they contribute to a lowering of GDP.


42 posted on 11/02/2010 7:50:18 AM PDT by RightInEastLansing
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religion of free trade bump for later............


49 posted on 11/02/2010 8:12:39 AM PDT by indthkr
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I’m totally for free trade. No buts, no qualifications.

Just as no one wins a currency war, no one wins a trade war; the wounds are always self-inflicted. A country imposing tariffs is like a general attempting to win a battle by massacring his own divisions.


58 posted on 11/02/2010 10:06:05 AM PDT by JHBowden (Keep the Change!)
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