Jim here is just repeating his little mantra over and over like a parrot. There is no use engaging him because he’s not discussing anything, he’s just mouthing his own party line as if it’s gospel. It’s like talking to a Moonie. Well at least his church has one true believer, him.
He’s convinced himself that the sole reason that companies offshore is due to government policy here in the states.
He’s impervious to addressing the mercantile export policies that our competitors employ because that would mean that ‘free trade’ isn’t at stake and that it’s not dependent upon our policies alone. So he pretends that market-closing behavior like China uses simply doesn’t exist. The only issue is to keep America from similary protecting our manufacturing industries and employment for our people, as China does theirs. He’ll just keep parroting ‘higher prices to American consumers’ as if that’s the sole concern in the world. It’s his one little drum and he beats it non-stop.
The choicest bit of this whole thing is finding accusing others of evading his questions. Priceless. You just can’t make this stuff up.
Well, onward and upward to the glorious libertarian future! Where we all get to buy what’s cheapest, which as we all now know is The Highest Good. Move over Plato and Aristotle, you’ve been dethroned.
You know, I certainly haven’t studied this in detail, but increasingly I am thinking that all the good and productive elements of Reaganomics concealed the harms of free trade and possibly without “free trade” the Reagan years might have been even greater.
The fact is I began this thread with a challenge to answer a simple question which you guys haven’t answered, because most likely the question cannot be answered.
It’s not a “mantra” or a “parrot” but a simple question which you have done everything except address and answer or admit it can’t be answered.
So you’ve managed to get around the condition that before you fire up your anti-free-market flamer throwers, you answer the question.
Then you get all pissed off because I won’t play nonsensical ring-around-the-rosy with you about subjects that are off point which you can easily do with a subject like economics.
The challenge is still there. The question goes to the heart of the issue and you have not answered affirmatively with a reasonable argument that actually can be discussed. You have shown you are unable or unwilling to have a reasonable on-point discussion here and like the Lefties, try to shift your lack of reason to the other side.
Have a good day.