Posted on 10/31/2015 9:18:31 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
To hear Donald Trump tell it, blue-collar workers here are suffering as much as ever, their livelihoods endangered by the familiar combination of foreign competition and U.S. companies eager to hold down labor costs. It's Trump's mantra. He repeats it again and again at campaign stops like the one he made here last week. A leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination, Trump has made the health of the U.S. manufacturing a cornerstone of his insurgent campaign.
In doing so, Trump is targeting a big pool of potential voters among disaffected blue-collar workers, even if it means alienating the business community and conservative free-market advocates and brings accusations of demagoguery. He vows to slap penalties on goods produced by U.S. companies outside the country, make it harder for China and others to export their goods, and tear up trade deals that he says hurt the U.S. industry. “I wonder how many Chevrolets are in the middle of Tokyo?’ he told the Anderson crowd to applause. “I would say none.â€
And at the economy-themed Republican debate held Wednesday in Boulder, Colorado., Trump pledged to “bring jobs back†from China and Mexico. There are signs that Trump’s strategy is working. Polls show that the bulk of Trump’s support comes from men who lack a college degree and make less than $40,000 a year, the kind of workers who once formed the backbone of the U.S. manufacturing economy. They have helped propel Trump to the top of popularity rankings in South Carolina, a key early primary state, where he is outpacing rival Ben Carson.
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“anti-trade”
Lol. They’ve got nothing.
Notice that the tone is one of disgust.
How dare Trump advocate jobs for the working class. How cynical of him, right?
The elitist Left is beyond despicable.
Trump is the only one who gets it.
So wonder that he is so favorably trusted on the economy compared to other candidates.
Bill Clinton was a SLEAZE-BAG from the get-go but he wasn't a bad president.
Hillary would be a bad president because she just doesn't have what it takes, that is, to be a LEADER.
Yep. They think they’re hurting Trump, but they are VERY wrong! Go Trump!
The Left is Anti-American!
I agree with you about Bill Clinton not being a bad President. But Hillary would be more dangerous than Obama!
So, are IT guys considered blue collar now?
The reason that Rubio is targeting IT workers with his H1b visas is precisely because they are NOT blue collar, union workers. They mostly White Middle Class workers.
More lies by the libs.
He is for fair trade.
A good negotiator goes to the table with something he owns or controls that the other side wants.
Every major overseas government wants our money and our goods.
So a negotiator says “We would like to trade with you. So we want you to .....whatever....”.
We have been leaving the door open and letting them trade on their grounds rather on on a basis benefiting both.
The old saying that a good deal is one profitable to both is still correct.
Very few blue collar guys are union now anyway.
Yes, she would.
I think that she's capricious. THAT is her second worst characteristic, the first being her inability to LEAD.
Any such tariffs would be a tax on consumers.
make it harder for China and others to export their goods,
Government needs to get out of the way.
and tear up trade deals
Tearing up our trade deals would be a good thing as long as our government doesn't negotiate a new deals.
Free trade is not FAIR trade in any agreement the US has signed on to so far. Our trading “partners” in the agreements still retain some (or many) barriers to imports from the US.
We have been pushed to accept the “free trade is fair trade” ruse since Bush41.
What Washington calls fair trade is far from fair. We continue to increase our trade imbalance in the name of this mythical fairness.
What is fair or free about the communist Chinese and their 11 year old laborers buying MFN status?
What is fair about NAFTA, encouraging poverty level wages the other side of the border?
Keyston XL should have been a footnote under NAFTA, but NAFTA is not about N/A, the USA, or Canada, it’s about legalized cheap labor in Mexico.
Trade is good. Open trade is awesome. That’s not what we have today.
We fought our revolution, in part, over taxation without representation. Well American representatives are now effectively taxing american business by increasing the cost of business and labor to the point the majority of american products are unexportable.
Through trade policy, labor policy, and all advised trade treaties America is for all intents and purposes self-tarrifing. Anyone that doesn’t realize that trade policy is critical to our survival as a nation is concurrently unaware of the current world economy and ignorant of history.
Free trade is fair trade. Government negotiated trade is not.
Anti-trade...
Like saying you’re against guns because you dissed a mass murderer who used a gun.
What Washington calls "free trade" is not free trade.
Ping
For the most part, big business had been supporting the Democrat party for decades. Small business people aren't being alienated.
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