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Making complex aerospace components is a wonderful thing unless the chinese steal the design and then manufacture it with slave wages and then sell it back to you.
You have to protect innovation. Where is the desire to innovate when the innovation is stolen and then reengineered and sold back to you?
Than you must enforce intellectual property rights. You must also bring China to the table and encourage them to do the same. That is not what protectionism entails, and tariffs have no place in the system you propose.
yes we Dems have eyes, something the other side seems to forget. We sat and watched obstructionisum at 100 miles a hour. It pi$$es me off to hear the Pugs get in front a camera and blame us. They act like the mess they left can be fixed in just a short few years, not while you block everything it can't. Just remember we are watching YOU
Than you must enforce intellectual property rights. You must also bring China to the table and encourage them to do the same. That is not what protectionism entails, and tariffs have no place in the system you propose.
Hard to type as I am laughing too hard. The answer...your answer...is to encourage China to give up literally billions of revenue because it is the best thing to do...for us? China cheats. China does what is in the best interests of China. The only way to compete with them is to level the field by trade tariffs. You cannot create agreements that they will simply break if it is in their best interests. You would suggest that we "talk" to them and that will solve everything. ROFLAO.
The country is on the edge of disaster. We have become a nation of importers where we used to be exporters. We have a debtor nation status. We can no longer borrow our way to prosperity. The next 4 years are likely to be no better if not worse than the last four years no matter who wins the presidency.
What we need is a real commitment to building jobs. The elimination of NAFTA and protection of our manufacturing base is paramount. We need to stop funneling money in to global police work and use it to build our economical infrastucture to become globally competitive again. This is not going to happen with a Republican House. They scream at protectionism and they want free trade instead of fair trade.
Let them have all three branches and when the U.S. continues to spiral downward under their leadership maybe then we can make massive changes in the way forward and completely get rid of the Republican party.
NEITHER political party represents the average American, or ANY sane American who isn't totally brainwashed. The Republicrats represent Big Business, Massive and all-controlling government, tax slavery of the working class, "Free Trade" and "Globalization" in order to rob the Middle Class and deprive them of any power to change things, and a hugely expensive military that costs us our national wealth while NOT even defending our borders.
We can crash and burn, or give a REAL alternate Party a chance. Founding Fathers and Libertarianism, anyone? Could it be any worse?
Umm... It was Clinton that inked NAFTA. When did the democrats come out against the trade arrangements we have today??? Lower wage nations can do much of the same work we do here. That doesn't always mean the trade is unfair... Unbalanced yes. Your only option is to compete. Or learn how to produce higher value goods. There is no money in making marti gras beads. There is money in making complex aerospace components. So get over it and move on.
But yes, once again, a lot of hot air
It was also Clinton who lobbied for and signed the 2000 China Trade Act just in time for Bush to deal with the job sucking realities of it.
As always, it doesn't matter what a Democrat actually does.
If he or she has a "D" after their name whatever they did was automatically good.
NEITHER political party represents the average American, or ANY sane American who isn't totally brainwashed. The Republicrats represent Big Business, Massive and all-controlling government, tax slavery of the working class, "Free Trade" and "Globalization" in order to rob the Middle Class and deprive them of any power to change things, and a hugely expensive military that costs us our national wealth while NOT even defending our borders.
We can crash and burn, or give a REAL alternate Party a chance. Founding Fathers and Libertarianism, anyone? Could it be any worse?
Well I would agree with the need for more parties. I think Libertarian is a viable party. Not a party that I would vote for, but it should be a party. You will just need to convince more of your Republican buddies to vote for them.
Well almost 4 years into this Administration and thihgs have gotten worse.
This current Administration instills no confidence, nor "hope" in the people in general or business.
I am all about fair competition but not at the risk of having slave labor and killing the environment. The key for the U.S. is going to be innovation and protection. When our nation was young, we did not have federal income tax nor did we have a strong industrial base, we had to grow and protect it. We did this by the use of tariffs. This protected our growing industry and created a revenue source to fund our govt. Now all of the sudden this is a bad idea. It was not necessary when we held an industrial advantage. It is now.
As much as the Republicans hated Clinton, he was a fairly conservative Democrat. Also, NAFTA was started under Bush I and signed by Clinton. NAFTA was a mistake.
And what of the 2000 China Trade Act?
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yes we Dems have eyes, something the other side seems to forget. We sat and watched obstructionisum at 100 miles a hour. It pi$$es me off to hear the Pugs get in front a camera and blame us. They act like the mess they left can be fixed in just a short few years, not while you block everything it can't. Just remember we are watching YOU
