Posted on 03/01/2018 3:43:22 PM PST by Ennis85
Counter productive to what though? Congress critter’s personal bank accounts
stuffed with dough from selling us out?
Just one city in China makes 90% of the world’s electronics proof:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/11/inside-shenzhen-china-s-gadget-capital/
China destroyed the U.S. electronics industry and are now trying to destroy the U.S. steel and aluminum industries.
Go Trump!
A country needs an electronics industry in order to survive. Why would anyone that lives in the USA want China to continue the destruction of America?
Ask Pat Roberts where he lives in Kansas.
Oh wait, it’s just an EZ chair in someone’s house (boy do I remember THAT thread)
Stupid people and wee bairns shouldnt see things half done as my granddad said.
This is the opening of negotiations.
And he campaigned on this topic.
Nothing is even on paper and signed.
Bunch of chicken little shitz.
Set aside Boeing exports, and we are basically just a consumer market for the global mercantile powers, in that we import value-added manufactured and engineered products and export raw materials and agricultural products.
Some of these farm state Republicans are the worst in that they support importing third world populations for the cheap labor and maintaining our status as a raw materials/crops colony for manufacturing powers like China, because the farm states grow the crops.
Maintaining our status as a consumer market and resource colony for China and other countries requires huge amounts of debt at both the government and consumer level to maintain the consumer spending power.
I don’t know about Pat Roberts personally but I’m pretty sure the rock I threw would hit more than a few RINO dogs. If past trade policies are so great why are we always sucking the tail winds of foreign countries?
This and other bright-paths think it’s a good idea to be dependent on steal supplied by a major global adversary.
Strategically, we need a steal industry here.
Pat Buchanan has advocated tariffs also.
Quick!
Beat the Bush family to it!
Smoot-Hawley! Smoot-Hawley! It’s all their fault!
Tell us Mr. Roberts....when China starts dictating policy to us (oh wait! they already do!), and does so by threatening to withold goods, what then?
No problem! We’ll just start up all our old industries!
Oh Wait...the technology will have disappeared since it went overseas and there was no development in our country; the investment will be too high to be competitive; the raw ore suppliers will have exclusive contracts with the foreign competition and there will be no workforce with any kind of skillsets to man such factories.
Oopsies. Gotta do what Chairman for Life Xi tells us to.
All China has to do to win a “war” with the U.S. is stop all exports to the U.S....
would that be steel or steal?
Turns out Pat Roberts has no home in Kansas and hasn’t had for years.
He uses someone else’s address - the “chair” he sleeps in when he visits, supposedly - is in this guy’s home.
And least that is what the thread brought out.
LOL
Hey, you’ll have to get used to it if you’re reading my posts.
Good call of course...
[Smoot-Hawley! Smoot-Hawley!]
I think the Laffer Curve just had one of the students drooling on his desk.
Wonder how much his Chinese masters paid him to say that?
He must be too poor to own a home in his home state. /s lol
... and meanwhile George W. Bush wants to bring in waves of cheap foreign labor to pick cotton.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/george-w-bush-on-dreamers-americas-their-home/article/2648500
Could our globalist elites be any more contemptuous of flyover American workers?
Hey!
LOL
I know huh...
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