Rush should have blinked when he realized he was agreeing with Al Gore on NAFTA...
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What I heard him say was that he is in favor of actual free trade, but that NAFTA wasn’t it.
Cool.
It’s funny he would do that just a day after Trump admitted his trade war was asinine and begged for a truce from the EU.
He said he was duped by economists.
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Economists are worse than climate scientists when it comes to promoting government scams.
I didn’t know he was still on the air...
I didn’t hear today, but I distinctly recall Rush laughing at Perot and saying “Al Gore made mincement of Perot” or something to that effect
Like it was yesterday. Perot continually interrupting Algor and to his credit, Algor for once being a gentleman about something
Yeah, I thought most of us now see that NAFTA was a disaster. AMERICA FIRST FAIR TRADE MAGA
Wow, he was mercilous on Perot for the giant sucking sound comment. He even pretended his TV was moved to Mexico the day NAFTA was passed as an extra dig.
Very interesting!
Welcome to the party, Pal!
Tariff-free trade with an equal partner such as the E.U. makes sense, but tariff-free trade with a partner who has vastly different wage and living standards only invites exploitation of those wage differences at the expense of the higher living standard workers.
So which part did Rush say he was wrong about?
I got many, many invitations to go “back to the DU” because I believed free trade was leading us down the path to ruin.
Rush should have blinked when he realized he was agreeing with Al Gore on NAFTA...
This topic was covered very nicely in the Federalist Letters in the discussions regarding the commerce clause. In order to have free trade, it is essential that everyone plays by the same rules. That is what DJT has been saying from the get-go.
I would like to see a tariff comparison for major import/export commodities for several of the major trading nations (with the USA). Their fees and taxes and “tariffs” on us and us on them.
Then I would like to see that analysis measured against the trade imbalances for the same countries (volumes of products). Finally, I would like to see the actual price differences in USD for each of the same countries at the point of distribution/consumption in the respective countries.
He is not the only one. I was a worshipper at the “Free Trade” Totem for more than 20 years myself. It was “GOP Gospel” since the time of Reagan, and especially during the Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama era. And it HURT the nation.
BIGLY.
I came to the same conclusions as Rush did today, only years earlier.
Frankly POTUS Trump had a lot to do with changing my thinking on that - years before he announced that he was running.
Rush finally noticed those seventy thousand factories that are gone & the middle-class struggling for 30 years.
What an eagle-eye. He’s known this forever. Took Trump to shove it down his throat until he coughed it up.
Now he is only right 98.937% of the time.
It took a big man to do this. Good for you, Maha Rushie.
Lobbyists and exploiters have owned DC for so long that they bought themselves their own little version of "conservative" values, whether they made sense or not.
Another of senseless tenant of "conservatism" fraud is the idea we need to stay in the Middle East for all eternity.
Economists considered our cash out to other countries to make the stuff we used to make here as part of GDP. So the loss of manufacturing wasn’t a problem as long as our capital was going out to finance it. Insane I know. But a lot of reasonable heads fell for it. I wasn’t smart enough to understand such a stupid concept?