Posted on 07/23/2015 6:02:37 AM PDT by Moseley
Donald Trump’s candidacy raises more urgent issues than the Donald’s sometimes poor choice of words: Trump has sparked a less-noticed but far more important debate about the future of our nation’s economy, the sustainability of American life, jobs, and a decent salary for Americans. This ultimately fuels the economic strength of the United States that makes it possible to defend our nation and its people.
It’s about Smoot-Hawley. I am talking about the myth, the ghost, the coat hanging on the back of the door that looks like a monster in the dark, the nightmare that makes uninformed and gutless politicians wake up with the sweats at 3:00 AM. It’s not the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 which is our problem at hand. It is the fairy tale, the fantasy, the primitive superstition of Smoot-Hawley that is driving our nation’s horrible, self-destructive decisions on economics.
Donald Trump, Mike Huckabee, and other GOP candidates want to create jobs, raise family incomes, and strengthen the U.S. economy by keeping jobs and factories here at home. Remember all that moaning and groaning about out-sourcing, the loss of manufacturing jobs, jobs going overseas, and that “giant sucking sound” (™ Ross Perot)? Well, Trump actually wants to do something about these problems and expand jobs here in the United States.
But that is protectionism! Blasphemy! Economic giants Larry Kudlow and Arthur Laffer are blasting Trump in columns and on radio. Critics are shouting that Trump’s protectionist policies will drive the country into another depression. It is a deep-seated belief in official Washington, and especially among Republican elites, that favoring U.S. workers, controlling the borders, and enforcing immigration laws damages economic growth. So the elites give lip service to what voters want while pushing for free trade and open borders. Trump isn’t playing the establishment’s game.
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I’m a rubber meeting the road kind of a person who prefers good trade deals to the kumbaya which currently prevails.
Only Trump can save America. Only Trump figured out that China and illegals are the main threats hurting America. The others running pushed for and Passed TPA which will make TPP sure to pass.
This TTP Obamatrade deal is a trojan horse.It’s disguised as “free trade” What It really allows is for Obama to flood the USA with an unlimited number of 3rd world immigrants...
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/20710-obama-gop-trade-scheme-includes-unrestricted-immigration
“Trade in Services” means they can import any number of 3d world workers from any occupation to take away any job from an American , IT ,trades, medical etc. . This is a whole new attack against Americans perpetrated by the anti-American communist Obama.
#noTPP
https://twitter.com/hashtag/notpp
"But, generally speaking, the Protective system in these days is conservative, while the Free Trade system works destructively. It breaks up old nationalities and carries antagonism of proletariat and bourgeoisie to the uttermost point. In a word, the Free Trade system hastens the Social Revolution.
In this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, I am in favor of Free Trade." -- Karl Marx
Writing about Smoot-Hawley is beyond the modern American voter. It’s like the sound a falling tree makes in the forest with no one to hear it. Politicians have long known that votes are purchased by dividing the people. Appearing to take money and power from one group and pretending to give it to another. That is one of the primary failings of the GOP. Blame, hate, fire and promises win elections. Egg heads go home and talk about how well they played; all the while wondering what happened.
The corrupt politicians in Washington fight for Global Corporations and Foreign Governments.
They care nothing for individual Americans.
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