Try this logic on your "progressive" friends and what heads explode.
Trump seems to get it since he occasionally uses the term “fair trade.” In terms of balance, I like his policy of RECIPROCITY. His thinking is: “If you F with me, that goes both ways.”
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariffs_in_United_States_history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariffs_in_United_States_history
I think there is a huge boatload of people who call themselves “conservatives” who have nothing whatsoever conservative about them. They are GREEDY.
That is it. They don’t care if America is treated well, because they don’t give a flying ‘f...’ how we are treated, as long as they can MAKE MONEY.
Those people have now very much enriched a country which is making every single sign that it intends to challenge us, and doing NOTHING to protect America.
Those people are why Trump was elected. They are the owners of a lot of companies which sold out and went to China.
Their companies MAKE all the stuff you buy in every single store, which says “Made in China”.
To heck with those people. We need to have more people like Donald Trump, and we need to have a lot FEWER people who are just motivated by money, over country.
America first. For a generation and a half everyone has been chasing the ‘mighty dollar’ away from the home of ... the mighty dollar.
It is high time, to return businesses to America. With or without, the companies who thought that going international, was a good idea.
No. Building things in America is a good idea.
bkmk
When you have a trade deficit that is close to annual GDP and National debt that is over GDP you have to ask yourself, “Just who is working for whom?”
If someone is willing to sell something to me at a lower price he subsidizes himself, and we mutually agree upon that price, it's free trade if both he and I agree upon the exchange ... no matter what its impact on other parties.
Kurt Schlichter - Please run for President in 2022!
Transnationalists who aren’t out and out socialist worm their way into “conservatism” because they like profits. That’s the only strong distinction between the establishment Republicans and Democrats, who are synergistic and feed off of one another. Cheap domestic labor via unfettered immigration, cheap imports via unfair trade agreements. The “conservatives” profit, note that we citizens never really saw any reduction in price on anything, the “cheap” part just increased profit margin. The Democrats get a huge influx of new participants in their social programs, which practically guarantees their vote because people vote their pocketbooks, whether it’s illegal immigrants voting fraudulently or actual citizens who have been reduced to wards of the state due to a collapse in the standard of living for working class and middle class citizens. Nice scam. Trump throws a monkey wrench into it. Tarriffs? Oh no, can’t have that. Border wall? GASP! From both sides. It breaks their toy.
Only 16 responses to one of the most important and best pro protectionist articles I’ve ever seen. The cowards that call themselves “free traders” would not dare come to this thread and pick apart Kurt’s well laid out arguments..