It still has to be ratified and any nonsense like that isn’t going to go over too well in an election year.
I’ve been lurking here for a long, LONG time (more than a decade) but for the first time I finally felt compelled to register and speak up about this topic. There is so much misinformation being said about this trade bill that was passed (and voted on by Cruz) that I just couldn’t take it anymore.
First, free trade has been a conservative policy for the better part of half-a-century. Ronald Reagon while President once said “Our trade policy rests firmly on the foundation of free and open markets. I recognize … the inescapable conclusion that all of history has taught: The freer the flow of world trade, the stronger the tides of human progress and peace among nations.”.
Protectionism is a terrible policy that isolates your economy from the world and makes it stagnate. Apparently 90% of this forum were Perot voters who bought into his horse-shit. Nearly every one of his predictions about the effect of NAFTA on the economy turned out to be dead wrong, yet people still soak this garbage up. They live on lies to support their agenda. The only thing that hurts job growth in America is burdensome regulation, not free trade.
Secondly, this bill doesn’t give Obama the authority to act on anything except to NEGOTIATE the deal. Once negotiated, it goes in front of Congress and then they can vote on it to ratify. If the GOP votes for a shoddy deal, then you have the right to go bananas, but that has not happened yet. I don’t blame Cruz one bit for wanting
Third, if you truly swallow and believe the protectionist garbage that the union scum like AFL-CIO spew repeatedly (You are on a hell of a team!), and it makes you so angry that you won’t vote for Cruz, then you might as well not vote for anybody this election because clearly nobody is going to fit your rigid requirements to be President. For the rest of your life you can bloviate on an internet message forum about how all the candidates suck. That’ll be a real productive use of your energy in this world.
IMO, people who support protectionism are no different than the McDonald’s worker who wants $15/hour to flip hamburgers. Whether you want to admit it or not, you are all cut from the same cloth.
“It still has to be ratified”
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Nope. If the Senate isn’t bought and paid for, Obama will simply treat the deal as an executive agreement for the remainder of his term(s). Either the Dems steal the presidential election against a conservative Republican or win it against a GOPe quisling (like Jeb Bush) and it is game, set, and match without a further vote by the Senate.
Correct.
Maybe there’s sanity in the House.
They don’t care about it being an election year on this issue. They know conservatives in GOP can be kicked in the teeth and they will still vote GOP. They count on conservatives being chumps.