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sorry but the freetyrade agreements (theres like 20 since nafta) nafta/cafta and obamas OFTA (freetreade with oman) is what has caused 45 million jobs to go overseas
sorry but the freetyrade agreements (theres like 20 since nafta) nafta/cafta and obamas OFTA (freetreade with oman) is what has caused 45 million jobs to go overseas
ALL should be repealed
Wrong. First 1 in 7 US mfg jobs are export-related. To get exports, one must import. Second, had we not done the deals, many industries here would have been dissolved in bankruptcy (textiles, toys, etc), and the rest would have been automated reducing employment by many millions.
I live a mile from a plant where 100 people now produce twice as much as 550 did in 1980. Lomg-term, automation will reduce mfg employment far more than any trade deal ever could. Robots have truly improved, while becoming far less expensive to boot.
For better or worse, the only constant in life is change.
nafta was dead in the water.. Clinton ( a brzezinski globalist) pushed hard..even the NYT said """team clinton was on full court press on getting the job done"""
who started talking 'freetrade'....carter the first brzezinski puppet
reagan HATED it, but his VP (bush1( also a brzezinski globaist) pished hard
bush1 (as potus) negotited it
without clinton PUSHING it, it would NOT have passed congress
Reagan imposed more tariffs than any president since Hoover and this is what he got:
sorry but the freetyrade agreements (theres like 20 since nafta) nafta/cafta and obamas OFTA (freetreade with oman) is what has caused 45 million jobs to go overseas
ALL should be repealed
1. Trade lets us get more for everything we produce, and pay less for everything we consume. 2. Our country, and the world, are richer as a result. On the individual level, there are winners and losers, but this does not offset the two undeniable advantages of free trade.
in the 1950's...rich was defines as 300k or more...
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....that would be 3 million or more in todays dollars
if the liberals would be REASONABLE and say tax those making over 3 million...nearly everyone (to include the conservatives) would be all for it
but to tax 250k (meaning a workingclass teacher making 125k, married to a workingclass cop making 150k) is taxing the middleclass
But they are also only using one little "sound bite" which appears to be in agreement with Obama. It isn't. They don't dare play the whole thing. But the context has been played on talk radio. They are lying.
Besides, I'm old enough to know what Reagan believed. He would never have supported Obama's policies. Period!
I have to applaud Obama on this one for putting his foot down against the GOP thugs to end the horrific Bush tax cuts to the rich, which was one of the main reasons that Bush and the GOP led the nation into disaster.
Let's hope he stays strong and doesn't give an inch to the GOP goons
"President Obama has been clear about his position and it has not changed," White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters traveling with Obama to California. "We should not extend and he will not extend the ... Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest two percent of the American people."
There ceased to be any Bush tax cuts some time ago. Now they are Obama's tax rates regardless of how much Obama and his Obamatrons try to spin the facts. Obama did sign the current tax rates into law.
By the way, will the OP also cheer all the other tax increases scheduled to take effect at the beginning of 2013?
It makes sense to not extend them for the upper 2%, whether he wins in Nov or not.
Exactly, if he doesn't win, I would bet that the GOP will change really quick when they finally figure out that now they have to actually fix things instead of complaining about it.
There ceased to be any Bush tax cuts some time ago. Now they are Obama's tax rates regardless of how much Obama and his Obamatrons try to spin the facts. Obama did sign the current tax rates into law.
By the way, will the OP also cheer all the other tax increases scheduled to take effect at the beginning of 2013?
Since in your mind they are now the "Obama tax cuts", I take it you must now be a huge Obama supporter and applaud this supposedly dynamite plan.
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