Posted on 06/12/2018 7:35:09 AM PDT by bitt
One of the greatest gifts President Trump provides through his policy discussion(s) is an awakening to how much U.S. voter perspective has been driven by constructed fallacy.
This is especially true in the discussion of domestic economic policy. There are trillions of dollars at stake; and the stakeholders are growing increasingly angry as President Trump places a spotlight on decades of economic fraud and abuse.
Prior to the 2016 election few people understood that DC politicians don’t actually write legislation, lobbyists do. Politicians don’t write laws, their role is to sell legislation created by lobbyist groups. That is the modern legislative model; that’s how it really works. Unfortunately the same bastardized and manipulated process has happened around trade deals and trade agreements.
In modern trade agreements, before the election of President Donald Trump, corporations would write the actual language within the deal. Corporate lobby groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, have fully functioning staff that do nothing except write the trade agreement language.
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“Trade between nations is always Mercantilist. And always will be.
It’s the nature of man.”
Well, I’ve seen human nature and trade at their most unfettered after the fall of Saddam’s Iraq. I came to the conclusion that free trade is the fundamental commerce of human nature. However what everyone calls “free trade” today is anything but. It’s a scam.
The only free trade today is in black markets because all the legitimate markets are rigged.
I spoke of trade between nations, not within them.
His point was if a firm automates production then why are they ALSO moving overseas?
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