Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 29 July 2018

Various driveby media television networks ^ | 29 July 2018 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[bray]

Is the Pope a Communist?

[rodguy911]

Hey that’s a good thing happens to all of us who work our asses off,I did three jobs working my way through college 200 years ago, builds character.

[chiller]

Sessions and McConnell. Immigration and Judges. Respectively they've kicked ass doing thee most important jobs before us today if the republic is to survive.

We'd all like to strangle them at times, but I say not yet.

[rodguy911]

I don’t trust either one. At least we have gotten rid of Lyin’ Ryan.

[bray]

There was a big push by the Barack regime to get as many people as possible on permanent disability to make the jobless rates look better and take them off welfare.

[Bernard]

Plenty of politics as usual, but apparently nothing about the continued unlucky streak of California and surrounding areas; nobody anywhere else on this planet has major deadly fires every year like California does. If only the government could do something about managing the forests so these fires could be reduced....

[Alas Babylon!]

Even so, they are making the money to buy stuff from us.

We are the largest, by far, consumer of Chinese goods in the world.

They could give up this gravy train, but no more gravy.

How badly would America be hurt if we stopped buying all their crap, versus they stop buying all of ours? We’d sell less soybeans. And?

They’d sell less TV, electronics, toys, steel, pet food, just about everything sold in Walmart, Kmart and Costco...

I was in Walmart trying to find some frozen salmon NOT from China. Couldn’t be done.

No, when the buyer doesn’t buy, it is the merchant who loses, or tries something to woo back the customer, not the other way around.

Trump is holding out for a better deal. In the end, the Chinese will see the merit of this versus no sale.

[bray]

The Redding fire is on the edge of burning down the city. When are we going to manage the forests rather than letting them die? It is rumored it came from the Federal land and exploded into a massive fire.

[rodguy911]

They are not doing us any favors here:

http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/28/border-wall-fight-midterms/

Securing funding for President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall once again seems to be getting punted further down the road by congressional leadership.

During a radio interview with WHAS on Friday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border will likely not make it into the next funding legislation, which must be passed by the end of September in order to avoid another government shutdown.

When directly asked if the funding of the border wall would have to wait until after midterm elections, the Republican senator replied “probably,” noting that it is “something [Democrats and Republicans] do have a disagreement on.”

“But most of the government will be covered and then at the end of the year, if we can’t reach an agreement on that, we’ll do what’s called a ‘continuing resolution’ for that little portion of the government spending that’s left unpassed in individual bills,” McConnell added. (RELATED: Trump Wants Senate To Go ‘Nuclear’ To Pass Border Wall Funding)

McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan met with Trump on Wednesday to discuss the funding legislation. The following day, Ryan also indicated the wall funding looked unlikely to be included in the current legislation.

HERE IS WHO WE NEED FOR THE NEXT HOUSE SPEAKER REP.JIM JORDAN

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[DanZ]

We are going to hear about 4.1!! Whether the commie dems like it or not! 4.1 GDP will seal the election for us and only DJT could have made it happen.Also,

I would wait until EQRNINGS for Q3 start coming in - This will be right before we head to the pols.

One quarter of good economic growth, while it may be good news, this late in the economic expansion may or may not tell us much about Q3 and Q4.

In addition - WILL we get a Budget or will we get CROMNIBUSS with PORK up the butt-hole

[rodguy911]

You have been all over the fire situation,we now know that on federal lands the necessary clearing of foliage that burns quite easily is not done due to environmental whack jobs.They are more than responsible for these fires along with bureaucrats who want high speed rails and some homes are in the way.

[kabar]

America Was Founded as a Protectionist Nation

Contemporary American politics is conducted in the shadow of historical myths that inform our present-day choices. Unfortunately, these myths sometimes lead us terribly astray. Case in point is the popular idea that America’s economic tradition has been economic liberty, laissez faire, and wide-open cowboy capitalism. This notion sounds obvious, and it fits the image of this country held by both the Right, which celebrates this tradition, and the Left, which bemoans it. And it seems to imply, among other things, that free trade is the American Way. Don’t Tread On Me or my right to import.

It is, in fact, very easy to construct an impressive-sounding defense of free trade as a form of economic liberty on the basis of this myth. Unfortunately, this myth is just that: a myth, not real history. The reality is that all four of the four presidents on Mount Rushmore were protectionists. (Even the pseudo-libertarian Jefferson came around after the War of 1812.) Historically, protectionism has been, in fact, the real American Way.

This pattern even predates American independence. During the colonial period, the British government tried to force its American colonies to become suppliers of raw materials to the nascent British industrial machine while denying them any manufacturing industry of their own. The colonies were, in fact, the single biggest victim of British trade policy, being under Britain’s direct political control, unlike its other trading partners. The British knew exactly what they were doing: they were happy to see America thrive, but only as a cog in their own industrial machine. As former Prime Minster William Pitt, otherwise a famous conciliator of American grievances and the namesake of Pittsburgh, once said in Parliament,

If the Americans should manufacture a lock of wool or a horse shoe, I would fill their ports with ships and their towns with troops.

Back when protectionism was American policy, it enjoyed a broad popular consensus. Only the left- and right-wing extremists of the day dissented. Extreme right wing Social Darwinists like William Graham Sumner—who published a fuming book in 1885 entitled Protectionism, the Ism That Teaches That Waste Makes Wealth—saw protectionism as a subsidy for the incompetent and an interference with the divine justice of the free market and the survival of the fittest. At the other extreme, Karl Marx, who was alive in those days and keenly watching American capitalism, wanted to see American capitalism break down and therefore favored free trade for its destructive potential.

Unfortunately for Marx, this was the golden age of American industry, when America’s economic performance surpassed the rest of the world by the greatest margin. It was the era in which the U.S. transformed itself from a promising mostly agricultural backwater, pupil at the knee of European industry, into the greatest economic power in the history of the world.

What happened to America’s long protectionist tradition? In the end, America only seriously turned away from protectionism as a Cold War gambit to prop up capitalist economies abroad and tie them to the U.S. Geopolitics trumped domestic economics.

Ironically, our old protectionist playbook for economic development is the same one, in many respects, that China and other nations are using against the United States today. Back when we were the ascending economic power in the late 19th century, it was Britain that complained about “unfair trade!” They were right, of course—but given that nobody forced free trade upon them, it was their own fault. Today, having forgotten our own history, we can’t even recognize the game being played against us, let alone figure out how to counter it. We will continue to pay a high price in lost jobs and declining industries until we wise up.

[DanZ]

Is the Pope a Communist?

Yes, the Pope is a Communist, I hope the good Lord takes him and removes him from our misery

[patriotspride]

A president for all, not one who only thought about himself..... e.g Barry O

Thank God Donald Trump was elected to break the cycle....

[Karliner]

wow, I never heard this story about good ole Mitch. Oh my sweet Lord the hits just keep on coming.

[DanZ]

If only the government could do something about managing the forests so these fires could be reduced....

I am assuming that this line is Sarcasm.

California is a dry place in the summer, PRIVATE ownership, clear-cutting, and other fire prevention methods are NOT allowed by State AND Federal law

[patriotspride]

Already today the United States and European Union have a $1 trillion bilateral trade relationship. The largest economic relationship anywhere in the world.

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How can this be (sarcasm). He only knows about construction....

Thanks for posting , hadn’t heard this anywhere else , including Cavuto who should be covering the financial side of what Trump is doing instead of denigrating him any chance he gets.

Well Mr. Sourpuss we the people believe him more than you and your fellow experts....

[patriotspride]

He axed me if I even knew what Marxism was. I answered, yeah, you are one and he hung up on me. Too funny.

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Well done. Made my day reading that line.....

[rodguy911]

Yeah a lot of stuff is out there not particularly easy to find but its there.

[DanZ]

We are the largest, by far, consumer of Chinese goods in the world.

Two minor examples of Chines items we use in the U.S. -

1. Steel - Structural steel and Pipe to build refineries, Many of these require MAJOR testing to verify Materials quality as Specified - 304S has to be 304S not Carbon steel

2. BOLTS - same issue as steel only MUCH more critical

The Chines lie and produce garbage - very similar to Soviets.

I pretend to work and you pretend to pay me, I believe is the way things still operate in Commie countries - Venezuela being the example closest to the U.S.