I can't decide which of these I like better: 
Posted on 08/30/2015 6:00:11 AM PDT by GeronL
Nonsense.
Smoot-Hawley was, at worst, a MINOR contributor.
All but the ideological economists would relegate it to a tangential off-shoot, symptom rather than cause.
With the cause being an ENORMOUS debt bubble funding speculation.
Like now.
The above posted so the lazy are not deceived.
There are folks in the US Chamber of Commerce that would have everyone believe that ANY US Tariff would be an economic catastrophe and they've had free reign with this meme for 70 years.
IT'S NOT TRUE.
It just runs against the Chamber's desire to offshore manufacturing AND access the US Market, duty free.
he has been the one doing the payoffs.
AT least he is not a phony like Trump
I can't decide which of these I like better:
BUMP
They will say “That doesn’t matter, that was so 24 hours ago”
Lol!
Trump in 2009: Obama saved the economy!
LMAO
Indeed. Like "Throw all the sh*t we can think of at the wall and see if anything sticks." "Run it up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes.", ad nauseum.
They themselves are scared spitless and it provides some measure of schadenfreude to see them squirm.
you mean like Jeb?
So which one is better?
I have to admit, the schadenfreude is great here. The gop scum, the Chamber of Cronies, and the ‘rats are all panicking. None of their normal bag of tricks seems to be working.
No. I am calling him fallible, as was Reagan, who also made huge blunders with Islamic radicals at the birth of the modern Islamic Jihad movement. So to hold them up as some kind of demi-gods is preposterous.
In fact, Levin has been very fair to Trump. And you may not recall that I am a Cruz man first, but increasingly convinced Trump is the only one who can prevail. But by all means continue your ad hominem attacks. It will really help you make you case...with somebody.
Take your label and stick it.
no you didn’t call him fallible....you used one mistake as a way to disregard any comment on Trump’s policies - because of course you can’t defend those policies intellectually.
I agree with that...Kudlow was right on the trade but perhaps not as great on immigration......
Now that was your first reasonable post on the subject in this thread. I disagree that Trump is the only one who can prevail, but I respect that kind of opinion. As for my attacks, they are not ad hominem, and they are not designed to convince the person I'm debating with. That's not how this works. So you went downhill with your last two sentences....
I like both of the but the second one made me lol.
I adore Mark Levin and never miss his podcast. I respect his opinion, but he and Kudlow are wrong on the relative impact of Smoot-Hawley on the Depression. This myth has the weight of scripture among free traders.
What policies do I need to defend of Trump's? I sent quite a bit of cash to Ted Cruz after he announced, but with each passing day believe he cannot be elected against the Uniparty and its media allies. Trump can. Easily. I support his (Jeff Session/FAIR) immigration policies as stated. Does he mean it? I don't know. What I DO know is that John Ellis Bush last week OPPOSED the building of a border fence, and is happy with the misinterpretation of the 14th Amendment. Can YOU intellectually defend Jeb's progressive policies? He is actually to the Left of Bernie Sanders on immigration.
Aside from Cruz and Trump, there is no other GOP candidate I would support. All the rest are corrupt and support the Obama-McConnell-Boehner-CoC status quo. Carson is apart from that, but will be quickly exposed in the coming debates.
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