Posted on 09/21/2009 9:57:06 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
The Globalist, Free-Trading approach, while in many ways has driven the economy, it has also destroyed the manufacturing sector (or the whole middle) of our economy, leaving high-end jobs and service sector jobs.
Free trade is great, if you hold your trading partners accountable, otherwise, it’s just another word for economic suicide.
DON’T STEAL the government hates competition hahahha lol
So you imagine if I can get some foreigner to take green piece of paper that they never plan to turn back into US goods for say a car, it is a bad deal for me or the US? Ha!
SHRIMP
Manufacturing still exists in the United States.
The last Toyota I drove was assembled in Georgetown, Kentucky.
The Mitsubishi I drive today was built in Diamond, Illinois.
BMW has a manufacturing plant in upstate South Carolina.
Rolls Royce just entered into agreements with the Commonwealth of Virginia to locate manufacturing facilities here.
I'm sure I could find other examples, if you would like.
Free trade is great, if you hold your trading partners accountable
Or, you compete with them.
Free trade is dangerous only if coupled with excessive and overbearing regulation and taxes that stifle the ability to compete.
Sorry, that should have read "Normal, Illinois."
NAFTA, CAFTA, GATT, ect have done nothing but screw the majority of Americans for a tiny fraction (or faction) to get even richer and have even more control.
True. But those are not free trade agreements, even though that is what they are called. Those are sweetheart deals between two presidents on behalf of their favored supporters in industry and agriculture.
True free trade is always unilateral. Just remove the tariffs and other trade barriers. Whenever two governments get together you can be certain the result won't be anything like free .
Aye. Commerce with all nations, entangling alliances with none. Including Cuba, Iran, ect IMO. Embargoes never work and only hurt the citizenry, leading to more anti-Americanism that usually keeps the enemy regime in power. Russell Kirk said it best: “If you want to spread capitalism, take the chains off and let it work. A good product sells itself.”
Is there that much interest in a RR anymore? I live in NYC/Long Island area and I hardly ever see one on the road, and the ones I do are OLD ones, driven by elderly men in nautical captain's hats.
Maybe Sean-Puffy-Puff-Daddy-Diddy-Diddily-Squat-Homey-Combs needs a BLING fleet for him & his POSSE. Other than that, in this economy, that plant is doomed before it starts, IMO
Ping
Trade Wars and Protectionism are the rules by which our competitors have been playing. Only we seem to be dumb enough to operate under Free Trade rules.
Rolls Royce mainly sell engines these days, including for aircraft
The greatest expansion of the middle class came in the 20 years following World War II. An average blue-collar worker could own a home, raise a family with a stay-at-home Mom, put his kids through college, and retire comfortably. And what we that lead to? Activist citizens. People engaged in the political process. Our rulers took note, and have been taking steps to make sure that we’re more worried about food on our plate and a roof over our head rather than getting in their way.
FREE trade also includes NOT trading with someone who cheats. But then FREE trade does not need government, which is what pisses off the big government types so much.
You can’t build a new world order without destroying the World’s solo superpower.
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