Posted on 07/24/2016 3:55:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A staunch Catholic who "personally opposes abortion", yet votes for every pro-abortion law?
An "American" VP candidate who delivers his initial address in Spanish?
What position does he hold that is any way "moderate"?
A big nothing article.
Only partially. It’s becoming more about crime and corruption versus law and order.
I don’t think there are but a handful of rats who are “moderates” and I don’t disagree with you. Kaine is represented by the MSM and talking heads as a moderate Read the descriptions. I don’t view anyone who supports abortion as a moderate.
The choice clearly indicates where Hillary believes she needs to go - politics 101. She is going to try and run for the middle and make Trump out to be an extremist. It won’t work on either count, but I believe that is now her strategy because she is getting nowhere fast with the Sanders crowd.
She needs to move instead toward the anti-establishment – forcefully committing herself to getting big money out of politics, and making the system work for the many rather than a privileged few. “
It is impossible for Hillary Clinton to do this credibly.
Impossible.
But it’ll be funny watching her try.
Amen!
They are free-trade deals only in the titles. They are mercantilist in substance. Free trade is no relative to government deals with other governments. Free trade is simply taking off the restraints to trade, eliminating the regulations and the regulating agencies; minimizing or eliminating business taxes. Free trade is unfettered trade, not negotiated and defined and controlled trade. England grew rich when it declared free trade. England did not negotiate bilateral agreements with other governments. When trade is tree Americans will prevail. Europeans are the most inventive and entrepreneurial peoples on earth. Germanic language speaking Europeans are the most inventive and entrepreneurial peoples in Europe. English speaking people are the most inventive and entrepreneurial people among the Germanic language speakers.It is possibly a genetic thing and probably partly related to the language. The other group that fits that description is the Jews and those in Israel are mostly conversant in English.
Reich is right.How is "I am your voice" authoritarian?
If I am your voice, you should just shut up and listen. If I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you.
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“[the problem is] a political-economic system that won’t cushion working people against trade’s downsides”
I wish Reich, an economist, would give specifics on how to do it. If he did, he’d sound like Trump.
“Donald Trump’s authoritarian populism is a dangerous gambit”
I just don’t see that.
“... and making the system work for the many rather than a privileged few.”
He’s feeding us pablum. I expected more from him.
I don’t see that.
OK, am I the only one who has a problem with the idea of “Tacking to the middle”. It means, You lied before. And now you are going to tell the voters a different story, just to get elected. If the press understood morality, they would know this is the same as lying. But of course the press has no morality anymore.
Trumps first huge mistake. Reagan made the same mistake.
Free Trade with the sellout globalist corporatists who exploit the USA non existent tariffs leads to international labor arbitrage and the de industrialization of the USA. Bad mojo all the way around.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The Robert Reich is such a comedian.
Like he actually believes this tripe.
This is too rich coming from Robert Reich!
Not to be argumentative, but the Indiana governor wasn’t head of CIA, just saying.
You indicate that you don’t know what free trade even is nor are willing to learn. None of the agreements in force or contemplated constitute Free Trade. Decry the agreements, not Free Trade that made England and America rich and powerful. I know there are people who can only think in slogans and Free Trade makes for some dandy slogans because the term is used totally inappropriately by the politicians and the corporatists. If you can get past the slogans then you will understand how things work.
In the history of the nation the protective tariff system has ever justified itself by restoring confidence, promoting industrial activity and employment, enormously increasing our purchasing power and bringing increased prosperity to all our people.
The tariff protection to our industry works for increased consumption of domestic agricultural products by an employed population instead of one unable to purchase the necessities of life. Without the strict maintenance of the tariff principle our farmers will need always to compete with cheap lands and cheap labor abroad and with lower standards of living.
The enormous value of the protective principle has once more been demonstrated by the emergency tariff act of 1921 and the tariff act of 1922.
We assert our belief in the elastic provision adopted by congress in the tariff act of 1922 providing for a method of readjusting the tariff rates and the classifications in order to meet changing economic conditions when such changed conditions are brought to the attention of the president by complaint or application.
We believe that the power to increase or decrease any rate of duty provided in the tariff furnishes a safeguard on the one hand against excessive taxes and on the other hand against too high customs charges.
The wise provisions of this section of the tariff act afford ample opportunity for tariff duties to be adjusted after a hearing in order that they may cover the actual differences in the cost of production in the United States and the principal competing countries of the world.
We also believe that the application of this provision of the tariff act will contribute to business stability by making unnecessary general disturbances which are usually incident to general tariff revisions.
I know economics. You should learn history. I know that the USA is de industrializing and becoming socialists as Marx predicted it would. Anyone trying to separate economics from politics is just plain silly . Like I said if Free Trade means that much to vote for Hillary.
Just so yo know the Republican Party was founded on tariffs. The founding fathers were all for tariffs. I will stick with George Washington and not neo loser globalist hacks. You stand informed.
So I take it you will be voting for Hillary.
Yeah. Sure.
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