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Rush does a mea culpa on 'free' trade
Rush Limbaugh ^
| 7/26/18
| Central VA
Posted on 07/26/2018 12:27:49 PM PDT by central_va
Sorry for the vanity but Rush did a 180 on trade today and I am proud of him.
Rush confessed he was wrong all of these decades about trade, live on air just a few minutes ago! He also admitted Perot was correct and the the one sided trade the US( and its workers ) have been subjected to was wrong and it was erroneously pawned off as 'free trade'. He said he was duped by economists.
I just listened in amazement committing free trade heresy live. It was a great radio show today! Awesome!
Rush is off my S list. He is big man for doing this.
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I just listened to him in total amazement committing free trade heresy live. Great radio show today!
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To: central_va
What I heard him say was that he is in favor of actual free trade, but that NAFTA wasn’t it.
To: central_va
To: central_va
It’s funny he would do that just a day after Trump admitted his trade war was asinine and begged for a truce from the EU.
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posted on
07/26/2018 12:30:26 PM PDT
by
babble-on
To: central_va
He said he was duped by economists.
...
Economists are worse than climate scientists when it comes to promoting government scams.
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posted on
07/26/2018 12:32:21 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
To: The Unknown Republican
He said the one sided tariff situation (status quo for decades) was pawed off as free trade and he had erroneously bought off on it. I heard him. So did you.
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posted on
07/26/2018 12:32:27 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
To: babble-on
Thanks for the laugh, babble on!
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posted on
07/26/2018 12:32:54 PM PDT
by
JoSixChip
(He is Batman!)
To: babble-on
Its funny he would do that just a day after Trump admitted his trade war was asinine and begged for a truce from the EU.Don't be coy just say it Richard head.
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posted on
07/26/2018 12:33:38 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
To: central_va
I didn’t know he was still on the air...
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posted on
07/26/2018 12:33:49 PM PDT
by
Electric Graffiti
(Jeff Sessions IS the insurance policy)
To: babble-on
Oh, so Trump was begging as you saw it. I thought he was successfully negotiating.
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posted on
07/26/2018 12:34:01 PM PDT
by
KC Burke
(If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
To: central_va
I didn’t hear today, but I distinctly recall Rush laughing at Perot and saying “Al Gore made mincement of Perot” or something to that effect
Like it was yesterday. Perot continually interrupting Algor and to his credit, Algor for once being a gentleman about something
Yeah, I thought most of us now see that NAFTA was a disaster. AMERICA FIRST FAIR TRADE MAGA
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posted on
07/26/2018 12:34:50 PM PDT
by
A_Former_Democrat
("Moderates/Independents/Non-voters" Are DIMS REALLY who you'd want BACK in POWER?)
To: central_va
Wow, he was mercilous on Perot for the giant sucking sound comment. He even pretended his TV was moved to Mexico the day NAFTA was passed as an extra dig.
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posted on
07/26/2018 12:35:03 PM PDT
by
proust
("The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today.")
To: newgeezer
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posted on
07/26/2018 12:35:56 PM PDT
by
DungeonMaster
(...the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light...)
To: central_va
Welcome to the party, Pal!
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posted on
07/26/2018 12:36:07 PM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
To: babble-on
Thanks for the laugh, troll.
Stop watching ABC news.
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posted on
07/26/2018 12:36:17 PM PDT
by
Conserv
To: central_va
Odd, Perot was the person who coined the phrase "giant sucking sound" when NAFTA was signed. Tariff-free trade between the U.S. and Mexico meant that U.S. manufacturers could ship parts to Mexico duty-free, have them assembled into finished products, then shipped back to the U.S. duty-free again. The giant sucking sound was U.S. manufacturing jobs being sucked south of the border to Mexico. I think time has proven Perot to be absolutely correct in this.
Tariff-free trade with an equal partner such as the E.U. makes sense, but tariff-free trade with a partner who has vastly different wage and living standards only invites exploitation of those wage differences at the expense of the higher living standard workers.
So which part did Rush say he was wrong about?
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posted on
07/26/2018 12:37:49 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: central_va
I got many, many invitations to go “back to the DU” because I believed free trade was leading us down the path to ruin.
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posted on
07/26/2018 12:38:02 PM PDT
by
brownsfan
(Behold, the power of government cheese.)
To: babble-on
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posted on
07/26/2018 12:38:09 PM PDT
by
Jeff Chandler
(President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
To: proust
It was definitely a 180. It takes big man to do that. Free Traitors are religious zealots. He committed free trade heresy live on air! You could feel the catharsis.
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posted on
07/26/2018 12:38:15 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
To: A_Former_Democrat
I remember this. I loved Perot. “NAFTA? We don’t hafta!”
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