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I Want a President Who Can Teach Us to Accept Capitalism
American Thinker ^
| May 4, 2016
| Christopher Chantrill
Posted on 05/04/2016 4:57:01 AM PDT by expat_panama
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To: 1rudeboy; Mase; Toddsterpatriot; SAJ; 1010RD
Begin the day kicking a hornet’s nest ping
To: expat_panama
I want a president who will teach our trading “partners” to buy American products.
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posted on
05/04/2016 4:58:35 AM PDT
by
cba123
(http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
To: expat_panama
Let this beautiful evening prayer be sounded from the minarets of freedom: Capitalism is not about accumulating gold coins in a sack by stealing bread from the poor...
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posted on
05/04/2016 5:05:49 AM PDT
by
Louis Foxwell
(Stop Islam and save the world.)
To: expat_panama
Trump will cut all the red tape holding back small business.
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posted on
05/04/2016 5:11:48 AM PDT
by
2001convSVT
(Going Galt as fast as I can.)
To: expat_panama
The economy is for the people, not people for the economy. Heresy to globalists and technocrats but not to people who put America first.
To: expat_panama
Their [sic] Ok, what was the point of that? This was a speech, wasn't it? Was the misspelling in the official transcript or some news report's transcript?
Wouldn't a reasonable person have changed it to [There]?
To: expat_panama
"And it really is about time that presidential candidates could dare to tell us that."
The problem is that every candidate that has doesn't get elected. It's the American people that are the problem. We don't intrinsically understand that our jobs for life are not guaranteed. Nor should they be. Until we Americans have the mindset that we are in control of our life and should not depend on the government this will not change. Even many so called conservatives don't understand the principle of capitalism. It's not about protectionism.
To: Old Teufel Hunden
“It’s not about protectionism.”
It’s also not about stupid one sided trade deals...
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posted on
05/04/2016 5:42:05 AM PDT
by
babygene
(Make America Great Again)
To: 2001convSVT
I hope he is elected so you can see it.
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posted on
05/04/2016 5:42:53 AM PDT
by
dila813
(Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
To: Old Teufel Hunden
Protectionism is conservative if you don't believe me just read about George Washington and the first congress. Protectionist policy conserves our industrial base. A child could understand that.
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posted on
05/04/2016 5:48:02 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: babygene
"Its also not about stupid one sided trade deals..."
If you are talking about NAFTA, you are incorrect. Looking at the deal, there is no question that Mexico, United States and Canada have all benefitted from the deal. Yes, I'm sure you can look at individual examples of people losing their jobs because of NAFTA and yes unfortunately that has happened. But overall NAFTA has benefitted us more than it has hurt us. One benefit is the free flow of exporting/importing oil between the three countries. There are many others.
To: expat_panama
Great topic for discussion but this article is lousy. With a white sheet of paper we could go back to a Mercantilism of 1895. But we live in a real world. It’s 2016. We have 20 trillion in debt and 100 million Americans not working. That is the problem we have to solve, wistful nostalgia of where it went wrong is less than helpful as it diverts brainpower. Let us roll up our sleeves and begin the repairs or pick someplace and start over.
To: Old Teufel Hunden
I am waiting for Carrier to announce across the board price cuts on their A/C products made in Mexico which will be a real boon to the US consumer. /sarcasm
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posted on
05/04/2016 5:51:58 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: expat_panama
NAFTA was by and large in the name of capitalism set up to circumvent government sponsored Unions- setting minimum wages. However, since NAFTA those that benefited the most spend huge amounts of their profits to fund political campaigns. Then in return these that get elected pen legislation that transfers that campaign debt over to we the people ... tax payers... sometimes the elected officials will call these campaign debts, mandates.
Meanwhile, government still sets minimum wages for the cost of Union lobbying. Some pigs are more equal than the rest of the animals out there on the farm. Now these crony capitalists seek to give US ‘open borders’ and ‘amnesty’ to all the peoples of the world.. And these pretend conservative, crony capitalists shred our Constitution, coming in the name of our Constitution. And they besmirch Ronald Reagan's name like two bit whores.
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posted on
05/04/2016 5:55:06 AM PDT
by
Just mythoughts
(Jesus said Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
To: central_va
"Protectionism is conservative if you don't believe me just read about George Washington and the first congress."
I don't even know where to begin with this statement. If you would like history, then I'll give you one. The Smoot/Hawley act. This was unbridled protectionism and is universally credited with taking America from a deep recession into a full blown depression that lasted for the next 12 years.
"This year, we have it within our power to take a major step toward a growing global economy and an expanding cycle of prosperity: the historic free trade agreement negotiated between our country and Canada. And I can also tell you that we're determined to expand this concept, south as well as north. Our goal must be a day when the free flow of trade, from the tip of Tierra del Fuego to the Arctic Circle, unites the people of the Western Hemisphere in a bond of mutually beneficial exchange."
From Ronald Reagan's 1988 state of the union address....
To: Old Teufel Hunden
If the schools started teaching Capitalism 101, like they should have all along, then this wouldn’t be such a big issue. Instead they teach that Marxist crap which somewhat intelligent people learn is crap eventually.
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posted on
05/04/2016 5:56:52 AM PDT
by
gr8eman
(Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
To: expat_panama
Globalist pricks can say what they want but radical and destructive “free trade” is being rejected by the electorate. Just in time too because if we let this disastrous situation go on much longer then a guy like Bernie will win one day. More tariffs and less income taxes.
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posted on
05/04/2016 5:58:14 AM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: gr8eman
"If the schools started teaching Capitalism 101, like they should have all along, then this wouldnt be such a big issue."
On that note, my college Macro Economics teacher was a proud socialist. He didn't like me because I went to college in my late 30's, not a young skull full of mush. That made me angry enough. On top of that, he wore suspenders and a belt. That sent me through the roof!
To: Old Teufel Hunden
“One benefit is the free flow of exporting/importing oil between the three countries.”
Importing and exporting of oil, assuming that was good for us, could have been accomplished outside the framework of NAFTA.
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posted on
05/04/2016 6:01:35 AM PDT
by
babygene
(Make America Great Again)
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