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Old 12-15-2011, 09:24 AM
 
Location: Illinois
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I'm gonna check.
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Old 12-15-2011, 09:35 AM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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Equal trade, not free trade.



Lets see?


China has a 25% tariff on all imports
We have a 2.5% import tax.


What is your outcome, from this mathematical calculation?

I believe a man named Ross Perot warned us all and only a few were listening.
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Old 12-15-2011, 09:46 AM
 
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Remove all tariffs....he said it many times.

Which is actually free and fair trade at the same time...in so many words
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Old 12-15-2011, 10:37 AM
 
Location: Illinois
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Default yeah that's what Congress has done

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Equal trade, not free trade.



Lets see?


China has a 25% tariff on all imports
We have a 2.5% import tax.


What is your outcome, from this mathematical calculation?

I believe a man named Ross Perot warned us all and only a few were listening.
I haven't found anywhere that he wants to change that, He say's they are our banker, and its better to trade with them than for people to die fighting. They are selling to us and taking our jobs, I see this as the main issue, American's need to create jos......that's what I'm planning to do.
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Old 12-15-2011, 10:39 AM
 
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Default free? Fair?

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Remove all tariffs....he said it many times.

Which is actually free and fair trade at the same time...in so many words
.How would that help our present situation.?
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Old 12-15-2011, 10:58 AM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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I haven't found anywhere that he wants to change that, He say's they are our banker, and its better to trade with them than for people to die fighting. They are selling to us and taking our jobs, I see this as the main issue, American's need to create jos......that's what I'm planning to do.



In what context.
Don't spin it. Tell the truth about his statement.
Lending money on our debt and practicing equal trade are two very different things.





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Old 12-15-2011, 11:00 AM
 
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He says that you must pack China carefully, regardless of how far your move is. Moving one block away, or one hundred miles away, it does not matter: China must be carefully packed away, with each individual piece wrapped.
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Old 12-15-2011, 11:26 AM
 
Location: NC
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I'm gonna check.
Ron Paul thinks they speak Mandarin. In a related news, Fox News pundits took offense to this and trashed Paul's foreign policy.
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Old 12-15-2011, 12:44 PM
 
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.How would that help our present situation.?
free trade creates wealth, protectionism destroys it.

our lack of jobs is not due to a lack of wealth, it is due to the laws and monopolies in place which keep that wealth pumping toward the rich, rather than distributed throughout the economy.

By enacting tariffs, we'd be saying, "We want to be just as poor as you."
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Old 12-15-2011, 01:16 PM
 
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I'm gonna check.
And you had to start a thread to write this?

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I haven't found anywhere that he wants to change that, He say's they are our banker, and its better to trade with them than for people to die fighting. They are selling to us and taking our jobs, I see this as the main issue, American's need to create jos......that's what I'm planning to do.
I think you have proven at least one English teacher needs to lose his/her job and be replaced with a better one. Net jobs gained = zero.
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