Posted on 05/18/2016 1:48:30 PM PDT by detective
Shapiro sounds not at all like a reckless interventionist in this op-ed on Syria policy in 2013.
https://www.creators.com/read/ben-shapiro/09/13/republicans-caving-on-syria
Since the end of the Cold War, Republicans have apparently never met a military action they didn’t support (see Somalia, Sudan, Yugoslavia); Democrats only support wars in full-throated fashion when those wars are waged by Democrats. Nowhere in any of this do American interests come into play.
Unfortunately, we passed that point 30 years ago. Now it is other countries pulling us down to climb over us. There is NO free trade. There is only fair trade in which everyone must compete under the same rules.
Second, even that notion is way, way outside traditional conservative thinking until the 1980s. Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams, Lincoln, McKinley, TR, Harding, Coolidge, and even Ike believed in tariffs (Ike didn’t have to use them because we were sooooo far superior to everyone else due to the war). The conservative position pre Reagan was ALWAYS “fair trade/reciprocity”.
Sorry, can’t go back that far. Beck sounded sensible in 2013 too, but they are both kooks now.
Shapiro us worse: he is a pathetic little Trump stalker.
We’re benefiting from exports to a degree we never did back then. The idea of getting into a tit-for-tat tariff war will hurt the stock market as much as it does consumers’ wallets and the real economy.
“U.S. exports in 2013 supported 11.3 million jobs, an increase of 1.6 million export-supported jobs since 2009.”
The end game is always what brings consumers better products at lower prices. There is no reason for anyone to do a job if it doesn’t deliver that result. The name of the game is competition. Competing with the world creates more innovation and efficiency than just competing within the U.S.
“I don’t want things to change because I want to keep my job” has never been an argument that’s been worthwhile. Our standard of living has advanced because of the creative destruction that comes from letting the consumer choose to buy their products from a better company without a bureaucrat punishing them for it, driving the bad company out of business.
Putting American businesses out of work for reasons having nothing to do with their inherent competitiveness is not “competition.” It is economic warfare, and it’s time we played.
And if Americans are so much better off, why have wages, I comes, household wealth, or almost ANY metric of economic health show that Americans are falling further behind?
Some ‘child prodigies’ turn out to be more child than prodigy. Little Ben turns out to be one of them.
BTW no one has ever seen Pajama Boy and Ben Shapiro at the same time. Just sayin’.
But she's already banging a Weinstein #nevertrump
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