Posted on 06/12/2015 3:52:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This week, Congress has a historic opportunity to unite behind an issue that will create jobs, raise wages and solidify the U.S. as the leader in the 21st century economy. On Friday, the House is expected to vote on a bill known as trade promotion authority, or TPA. This legislation would empower Congress to dictate the terms of free trade agreements and ensure the U.S. secures the best trade deal possible for American workers, manufacturers, farmers and ranchers. This issue shares broad bipartisan support ranging from Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, Congressman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and President Obama. Its passage is vital to ensuring American global leadership and creating opportunities for good-paying, high-quality jobs for the American people.
Free trade agreements allow us to remove trade barriers and open U.S. products to overseas markets. Past agreements show American companies are the most innovative and dynamic in the world – if provided an equal opportunity, they can compete and win. In fact, if you combine all 20 countries that have a trade agreement with the U.S., American manufacturers enjoy a $50 billion trade surplus. Conversely, if you combine all the countries the U.S. does not have a free trade agreement with, American manufacturers run a $500 billion deficit.
Currently, the U.S. is negotiating numerous free trade agreements, the most notable being the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. A vote on either of these trade agreements is not likely to occur this year; however, in order to ensure that America gets the best possible deal on these FTAs, Congress must enact TPA....
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If they were really concerned about trade, and how it affects America, they would have already junked the income tax code.
Nothing does more to benefit foreign producers, and penalize American producers, than the U.S. Stupid Tax.
A majority believed in chattel slavery, women not voting, exterminating the Indians, putting the Japanese-Americans in internment camps, Jim Crow, witch trials, anti-Semitism and all manner of things at one time or another. That’s why we’re not a democracy, but a republic.
Too bad none of it is for America and American citizens.
The Koreans are just as bad as the chinese when it comes down to industrial espionage. Take your offshoring sales pitch elsewhere.
If your want to pitch the benefits of cheap asian and central american labor, you picked the wrong place for it.
And as far as the swipe at the millenials and gen-x crowd goes, they never had the chance to develop a work ethic, because their parents were too busy selling all of the job and business oppurtunities to the highest foreign bidder, while humping illegals and visa workers across the border to take up any job that couldn’t be outsourced, while setting up every firewall possible to prevent competition or encroachment on their sweet deals.
But I’m not really bitter about it anymore.
I guess that if you can’t beat ‘em, you’re gonna have to exploit ‘em.
And that is exactly what intend to do.
“A majority believed in chattel slavery, women not voting, exterminating the Indians, putting the Japanese-Americans in internment camps, Jim Crow, witch trials, anti-Semitism and all manner of things at one time or another. That’s why we’re not a democracy, but a republic.”
And this has what to do with a discussion about a monster trade deal that cedes the US sovereignty to a new economic union?
In the interest of accuracy we are no longer a Republic we are an Oligarchy transitioning into a global one world plebe.
The “majority” has been supportive of all kinds of questionable things in the past, that’s how it’s germane.
I thought this was a conservative site. Conservatives have always been supportive of free trade, including such stalwarts as Reagan, Taft, Coolidge, McKinley, Eisenhower and many more.
Ted Cruz just reached up and grabbed the silver ring and flushed himself down the shitter. He will not be president, he will take a lot of money for his votes.
Now where have we heard that before. Funny how it never materializes.
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