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What Trump Doesn’t Understand -- It’s a Lot -- about Our Trade Deficit with China
National Review ^ | 01/10/2016 | Kevin Williamson

Posted on 01/10/2016 8:20:54 PM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 01/10/2016 8:20:54 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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NR are like pigeons flying into mirrored office buildings when it comes to Trump.


2 posted on 01/10/2016 8:22:26 PM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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NR are like pigeons flying into mirrored office buildings when it comes to Trump.

That's good!

3 posted on 01/10/2016 8:22:56 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: SeekAndFind

I thought this article would be about an Dreamer family being called up at a restaurant.


4 posted on 01/10/2016 8:24:01 PM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: SeekAndFind
I'm suspicious when the article starts off with What Trump doesn't Know
5 posted on 01/10/2016 8:25:30 PM PST by Fhios (How about we call it a a war on sharia law?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Kevin has made how much money?Kevin signs checks on the back while Trump signs checks on the front.I will put my faith in Trump.


6 posted on 01/10/2016 8:25:36 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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—> ... the Chinese buy about 30 cents worth of U.S. made stuff for every dollar’s worth of Chinese made stuff we buy ... <—


7 posted on 01/10/2016 8:26:12 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
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To: relictele

HA! That’s good.


8 posted on 01/10/2016 8:26:52 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: SeekAndFind
When will the media ever learn?

It's like a "do not push this button" reaction for them. They do, and he grows bigger.

Stop poking the bear, bee hive, badger, or carnival barker.

9 posted on 01/10/2016 8:27:19 PM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ll be nice. The dude does not understand Trump. I think wearing blinders is a job requirement in order to work at NRO.


10 posted on 01/10/2016 8:27:24 PM PST by be-baw (still seeking)
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‘Our trade deficit with China isn’t a product of the Chinese getting rich — it’s a product of their being poor. We will not have more-balanced trade with China until Chinese people have a standard of living that is more like that of Americans’

Or until Americans are living more like the Chinese people.

You see, with every job in manufacturing anything goes offshore, we lose a productive citizen who either goes into a service industry catering to other consumers or he doesn’t work at all and becomes an expense to society.

It is only through manufacturing finished goods and exporting them for hard currency that a society actually builds wealth.

That can be seen buy the balance sheet of the American Corporation called the Federal Government. Presently it has a 19 Trillion dollar debt and it is only growing at half a trillion a year. $15 trillion of that was rung up in the past 14 years and tracks almost exactly with the loss of manufacturing in this country.


11 posted on 01/10/2016 8:29:13 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Kevin Williamson - the GOPe’s attack dog.


12 posted on 01/10/2016 8:29:34 PM PST by struggle
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"NR are like pigeons flying into mirrored office buildings when it comes to Trump."

Still, it raises the concern over whether he would listen to advisers of march ahead enforcing his own ideas like Barack has done.

13 posted on 01/10/2016 8:29:54 PM PST by Baynative (If socialist democrat ideas are so good for people why must they be mandatory?)
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To: Fhios

Because, any criticism of Trump is not allowed.


14 posted on 01/10/2016 8:30:13 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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“So Trump proposes to put a 45 percent tax on people of modest means who buy toys and shoes at Target”

This is a FIRST. A GOPe type worried about how people of modest means will cope. But then there are a lot of ‘firsts’, when it comes to attacking Trump.

What they don’t yet understand is that they have ZERO CREDIBILITY with Trump supporters, and they shouldn’t. They’ve stood by SILENTLY while the GOP mortgaged away the futures of our children.


15 posted on 01/10/2016 8:30:34 PM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: SeekAndFind

such condescension and arrogance. I thought this was written by a leftist. Attacking Trump’s intelligence because he was given $1million loan and turned it into billions


16 posted on 01/10/2016 8:30:45 PM PST by 4rcane
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why is our trade deficit with China so large?

no mention of China's manipulated undervalued yuan ?
17 posted on 01/10/2016 8:32:38 PM PST by stylin19a
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I read the first few paragraphs and thought this guy has no crediblity


18 posted on 01/10/2016 8:32:54 PM PST by 4rcane
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To: SeekAndFind

So if I understand Kevin correctly we have some sort of “duty” to become poor so that China can become “rich?”


19 posted on 01/10/2016 8:34:23 PM PST by vette6387
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Who wrote this?

He knows more about business and economics than Trump?

Seriously?


20 posted on 01/10/2016 8:34:24 PM PST by JPJones
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