* * *
In Tuesday’s indictment of free trade as virtual economic
treason, "The Donald" has really set the cat down among the pigeons.
(*TWO THUMBS UP*)
For, in denouncing NAFTA, the WTO, MFN for China and the
Trans-Pacific Partnership, all backed by Bush I and II, Mitt Romney and Paul
Ryan, Trump is all but calling his own party leaders dunderheads and losers.
* WHICH THEY ARE!
And he seems to be winning the argument.
* YES HE IS!
As he calls for the repudiation of “globalism” and a
return to “Americanism,” a Republican Congress renders itself mute on whether
it will even vote on the TPP this year.
* BUT THEY SURE AS HELL FUNDED OBAMA'S DEFICIT SPENDING
AND AGREED TO THE HIGHEST DEBT LOAD IN HISTORY IN DOLLAR AMOUNT!
* FOLKS... THE REPUBLICANS ARE MAINLY SCUMBAGS. (THE
DEMOCRATS ARE PRETTY MUCH ALL SCUMBAGS... BUT LET'S STICK TO THE REPUBLICAN
CONGRESS FOR NOW.)
On trade, Bernie Sanders is closer to Trump.
* MEANING CLOSER TO RIGHT!
Even Hillary Clinton has begun to renounce a TPP she once
called the “gold standard” of trade deals.
* SHE'S SUCH A SCUMBAG. SHE BELIEVES IN NOTHING BUT
POWER. REMEMBER WHEN SHE USED TO BELIEVE MARRIAGE WAS MEANT TO BE ONLY BETWEEN
A MAN AND A WOMAN? SERIOUSLY... WHAT KIND OF SAD SACK P.O.S. CAN STOMACH THIS
WOMAN?
* NOTICE: I WANT TO FIRE RYAN AND MCCONNELL WHILE
MILLIONS OF "LIBERALS" WANT TO MAKE HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON PRESIDENT
OF THE UNITED STATES! MY FRIENDS... SUCH PEOPLE ARE SCUM. NO OTHER WORD FOR
'EM.
Where have all the troubadours of free trade gone?
* OH... THEY'RE OUT THERE...
(*SMIRK*)
Why do economic patriots seem ascendant?
* BECAUSE WE'RE RIGHT!
Is this like the Cold War, where the other side gets up
and goes home?
* PERHAPS...
* HOPEFULLY...
As Trump pointed out in Monessen in the Mon Valley of
Pennsylvania, the returns from free trade are in, and the results are rotten.
Since Bush I, we have run $12 trillion in trade deficits
- $4 trillion with China.
Once a Maoist dump, China has become the greatest
manufacturing power on earth.
Meanwhile, the U.S. has lost 50,000 factories and a third
of its manufacturing jobs.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
* YOU HAVE TO BE SERIOUSLY DELUSIONAL - STUPID - OR
SIMPLY WANT TO SEE AMERICA FALL - IF YOU BELIEVE THIS IS A GOOD THING.
Trump is going to start a “trade war,” wail the critics.
* NO! WE'RE IN A TRADE WAR! AND WE'VE BEEN LOSING! TRUMP
WANTS US TO START WINNING!
But the damage wreaked upon U.S. industry by free traders
already rivals what Arthur “Bomber” Harris did for German industry in the Ruhr.
(*SNORT*)
In recent decades, every major U.S. trade partner —
China, Japan, Canada, Mexico, EU — has run annual trade surpluses at our
expense. How do 40 years of trade deficits in goods, run by a nation that
rarely ran one for a century before, make us stronger or wealthier?
* THEY'LL TELL YOU WE HAVE MORE... "STUFF."
(*SNORT*)
Or is what is best for the world now more important than
what is best for America?
* NOT IN MY BOOK, IT'S NOT!
And here we come to the heart of the argument.
* AMERICA FIRST!
* AMERICANS FIRST!
Washington, Hamilton, and Henry Clay, father of the
“American System,” and Lincoln and every Republican president up to Eisenhower,
crafted trade policies to promote manufacturing to grow the wealth of the USA.
They were patriots not globalists.
* DAMN STRAIGHT!
They knew that America’s political independence required
economic independence of all other nations. They wanted to build an economy
where Americans would cut their bonds to foreign lands and come to rely upon
one another for the needs and necessities of their national life. They sought
to make us independent, so that we could not be dragged by economic ties into
the inevitable wars of the Old World.
(*NOD*)
And they succeeded magnificently.
* YEP!
Britain, which embraced free trade in the 1840s, became
so reliant on imports that a few dozen German submarines almost knocked her out
of World War I.
* THIS IS TRUE! (DO THEY STILL TEACH THIS IN SCHOOL?)
Protectionist America had to come pull her chestnuts out
of the fire.
* YEP! (AND WE MADE A PRETTY PENNY DOING SO!)
Free trade ideology is not America-made. It is an alien
faith, a cargo cult, smuggled in from the old continent, the work of men Edmund
Burke called “sophisters, economists, and calculators.”
* I LIKE THAT... "SOPHISTERS."
(*WINK*)
David Ricardo, James and John Stuart Mill, Richard
Cobden, all chatterers and scribblers, none of whom ever built a great nation,
declared free trade to be the new New Testament, the salvation of mankind.
These men in whose souls the old faith was dying seized
on a utopian belief that world government and free trade would be the salvation
of mankind. The Economist magazine was founded to preach the heresy.
(*NOD*)
Before the modern era, Americans never bought into it.
But now... our elites have.
(And, undeniably, there are beneficiaries to free trade...)
* FOLLOW THE MONEY!
There are first the owners, operators and shareholders of
companies who, to be rid of high-wage American labor, moved production to China
or Mexico or where the costs are lower and regulations near non-existent.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
Transnational companies, their K Street lobbyists, and
media that survive on their advertising dollars, are the biggest boosters of
free trade, as they are the biggest beneficiaries.
Consumers, too, at least initially, see more products
down at the mall, selling at lower prices. Cheap consumer goods are the bribes
free traders proffer to patriots to sell out their country and countrymen to capitalists
who have no country.
* YEP...
(*SIGH*)
* THE SHORT-TERM CARROT...
* IN THE END IT ALWAYS LEADS TO RUIN. (FOLKS... THIS IS
THE FORMULA OF THE ILLEGAL DRUG TRADE! GET 'EM HOOKED...)
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
But we are not simply consumers. We are Americans. We are
fellow citizens. We are neighbors. We have duties to one another.
When a factory shuts down and a town begins to die,
workers are laid off. The local tax base shrinks. Education and social services
are cut. Folks go on unemployment and food stamps.
We... all... pay... for... that...!!!
Wives go to work and kids come home from school to empty
houses, and families break up, and move away. Social disintegration follows.
“Creative destruction” is the anti-septic term free
traders use to describe what they have done and are doing to the America we
grew up in.
Southeast of the old Steel City, in the Mon Valley of
Pennsylvania, where my mother and her six brothers and her sister grew up,
folks describe what happened more poignantly and graphically.
* I WANT MY AMERICA BACK...!!!
* TRUMP 2016!
* AMERICA FIRST...!!!
* AMERICANS FIRST...!!!
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