Posted on 02/21/2007 7:13:32 AM PST by A. Pole
Free trade bump
Free trade is costing us alot. It was one of the reason we lost the house in2006.
yeah, the demise of american manufacturing could not possibly be caused by obscene wages and benefits paid to bolt turners, compliments of the union.......nah, must be the nasty outsourcers....
Free trade is great but conscience free trade is screwing us.
Even if the American people were up to "the challenge", the people behind the "New World Order" wouldn't let it happen. It seems that our government, or some very powerful people in the government, are more worried about the rest of the world than they are about America. America needs to take this country back.
Love it oh lump it they vote. Increasingly they are voting against free trade.
Relax. I'm sure China will build our War Machine for us.
Bump to Alexander Hamilton!
200 years of history wasn't wrong.
The current crop of do-nothing-imposters masquerading as free traders in the Administration and amongst their governing coalition with the Rats are devoid of either all historical understanding ...or integrity.
They refuse to enforce the level playing field.
Even if the American people were up to "the challenge", the people behind the "New World Order" wouldn't let it happen. It seems that our government, or some very powerful people in the government, are more worried about the rest of the world than they are about America. America needs to take this country back.
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Beyond any doubt, for a multitude of reasons. And throw into the mix, excessive taxation and regulations (what the socialists love) and you have the recipe for the largest trade deficit in history. Anti-capitalism will be the bane of America, when combined with the increasing socialism and bigger government control.
Alexander Hamilton. Heh.
Yes, let's conduct our economic policy based on the ideas of a person that lived and wrote over 200 years ago--brilliant!
Folks, economics is a science. We've learned a few things in 200 years.
If someone said that we should base modern medicine exclusively on the writings of a man that lived 200 years go, they'd get laughed out of the room. But when they say we should do the same with economics, for some reason, people buy it. Strange.
Thats a great quote. Free trade is fantastic when you are actaully trading. Just sending American jobs hand over fist overseas for nothing in return is not free trade.
like it or lump it, it is now a global economy...isolationismn will only spell the downfall of our own econamy. the cure is to put wages in line with skill level. when a bolt turner makes more than a college educated engineer or designer, somthing is terribly wrong.
Only a systemmatic restructuring of American tax policies to fix the competitiveness issues will staunch the hemmhorraging. I have long advocated the ending of the income taxes, and switching to a national sales tax, together with a "free market" access tax that foreigners would have to pay. I.e., a uniform revenue tariff that rewards moving production into the U.S. or keeping it there.
Then with select allied countries negotiating mutual reductions of those tariffs..."reciprocity" is the traditional Republican policy.
This would restore fair trade, which is truly the only real free trade.
The Big Picture? What, exactly, is the big picture? Seems to me like our economy has never been stronger and the standard of living of Americans is far and away higher than it's been in our history. Since 1948--the beginning of the free trade "era", the amount of scientific progress and the advances made by society have been nothing short of remarkable--far surpassing any other similar period in the world's history.
But right. Free trade is bad.
You are making a mistake here. You are trying to look at it as economics, I am talking politics. The politics of it is free trade is a loser. And I think it is an economic loser as well.
More brilliant than you know. It's working for China as they kick your U.S.-based-butt.
Folks, economics is a science. We've learned a few things in 200 years.
Mostly not. You evidently haven't learned a thing, and manifestly have forgotten...if you ever knew... what got us up to the plateau we are now frittering away.
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