Posted on 03/24/2016 1:09:34 PM PDT by Mensius
When the Ford Motor Co. decided to move jobs south to Mexico so that it could pay its workers less, billionaire businessman Donald Trump was furious. He made trade inequalities and Ford’s betrayal of American workers a central issue of his campaign.
And, without his even being in the Oval Office, it worked.
In an interview with CNBC, Ford CEO Mark Fields said that the automaker would be “here to stay.” He also said he had outlined his company’s plans in a letter to Trump.
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“There is still the matter of deporting millions of illegals. With the court system that is still a very time consuming process. “
Nonsense. It’s a matter of enforcing existing law, just like President Eisenhower did when he removed millions of illegals.
We have had a string of Presidents subverting immigration law beginning with GHW Bush who never enforced the sanctions in Reagan’s 1986 Amnesty. His amnesty loving son was even worse, and Obama has used the hordes those fools brought into the country as a political weapon.
There’s a reason that California transformed from Reagan Country to Obama Country. If the rest of you refuse learn from it you deserve the same fate.
The existing law has a process for deportation and it isn't just gab them and deport them. They have hearings and appeals etc. This is time consuming and with anywhere between 11 and 30 million illegals would bog down the court system. If you decide circumvent the process, that will enter he judicial process ending with a SCOTUS ruling. And good luck with that
Let me understand your position.
The International Trade commission is an eight decade old bi-partisan commission established by Congress. Congress being a presumably unnecessary inconvenience foisted on us by the founders.
Upon election I presume by fiat Donald will terminate the democrat members, of the six no more that three can be of the same party, and replace them with members of the Trump party. He may have to do the same with the Republican members, he can replace them with Donald party members.
Then once he's stacked the commission, he'll ignore the will of Congress and the courts, he'll instruct them to uphold any and all charges of dumping, irrespective of facts or the rule of law. That and an unlawful Persidential tariff will convince companies to invest in the "economically stable" United States.
I've commented in the past that one of the worst potential results of illegal immigration is the importation of the corrupt system of government south of the border. And have suggested we'd be better off importing tomatos if the absence of labor fear mongers are correct, rather than importing illegal workers. If you're correct, that becomes less of a worry, we'll be electing a corrupt Mexican/Latin/South American centrally directed economy.
For many voters who are skeptical of Trump and what he says, his supporters may turn out to be his worst enemy
“So if it’s U.S. companies manufacturing the pickup trucks, cookies, and HVAC equipment and bringing it back to the U.S. then how can they complain they are economically injured by those imports?”
the workers who were laid off at the US plants make the complaint of economic injury.
you started by saying that Trump couldn’t enact the tariffs he was talking about.
you are wrong about that. Existing trade law and the structure of the ITC allows the Executive Branch to do just what Trump is proposing.
What is happening now is that practices in violation of US trade law such as economic injury, currency manipulation, selling for less in markets outside the USA... etc are routinely ignored. And have been for decades by successive Administrations.
Contrary to “ignoring the will of Congress and the Courts” what Trump is proposing is an Administration that actually enforces the trade law that is already on the books !
He negotiated a better deal by just threatening to negotiate a better deal!
I presume you and Donald intend to amend the Constitution, eliminating Article 1 Section 8. Are there other prerogatives of Congress you wish to eliminate? Will Donald somehow be able to amend the Constitution without the engagement of the Congress and the several states?
You shouldn't take Donald's puffery too seriously, most of it has no factual basis of implementation in our Constitutional system. And you really make him sound like Obama and FDR. Of course FDR's solution for the Supreme Court would have been constitutional if he'd had a more pliant Congress.
I don’t believe the story. He says Ford is here to stay but he did not say he was getting out of Mexico nor cancelling plans for a new plant there.
wrong again.
Congress has already passed the laws. The Tariff Act of 1970 and the Trade Act of 1974 already exist. If Congress wants to stop a President from enforcing these laws, they need to pass a repeal by a veto proof majority.
The Chinese tire case shows exactly what the ITC can do when they get off their asses and actually enforce the law.
Ford has invested billions in the USA in the last five years, so it is not abandoning US production.
Ford’s Mexico investments are going ahead as planned, Trump or no.
Ford says it has ‘no plans’ to close any US plants. But with Mexican plants coming on line in 2018, they don’t really need to have official plans right now to transfer production to Mexico, do they?
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-newyork-autoshow-ford-motor-trump-idUSKCN0WP2EE
And you are a bigger imbecile if you think that a 35% tax rate and tens of thousands of regulations aren’t significant factors in moving production offshore.
You are looking at the wrong hand of the magician.
You do know that courts, laws etc. has changed drastically in the last 60 years, don't you? We may be able to stop them at the border and send them back, but those that make it in are entitled to due process under present laws.
What it means to me is that the government's job isn't to run the country, it's to maintain the freedom of the country so that people can run themselves (and their businesses).
For the benefit of AMERICANS (ourselves and our posterity). I think some of these globalist multinational corporations (and BIG donors) have other motives in mind.
Bill O’Reilly, that you?
The Romney's came back..
Probably true; as long as they are called Illegal Aliens.
Call them Border Invaders (which they truly are) and see how fast they are gone!
You can call them anything you want. The courts don't care. They have been stacked. Even the Republican appointed Judges are liberal. That's why nothing is going to get done. My philosophy on government is "nothing ever changes............for the better".
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