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Old 04-11-2020, 10:05 PM
 
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Ronald Reagan was the biggest Marxist since LBJ. I think only Trump is close to him on the socialism scale since Ronnie signed off in 1989.

Obama is in there...for sure.

Point is, they're all Marxists.
If everyone is a Marxist then no one is a Marxist.

Reagan was dumb but pointed in the right direction. The neoliberal revival that occurred in the late 1970s was necessary to end the USSR. Millions of people were freed when it collapsed.

As always a good political cause was corrupted by grifters. At this point Reaganism is a dead letter and the only people clinging to it are on the take.
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Old 04-11-2020, 10:12 PM
 
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[T]he "house of world order" will have to be built from the bottom up rather than from the top down.... [A]n end run around national sovereignty, eroding it piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned frontal assault....
Among other things, we will be seeking new rules in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to cover a whole range of hitherto unregulated nontariff barriers. These will subject countries to an unprecedented degree of international surveillance over up to now sacrosanct "domestic" policies, such as farm price supports, subsidies, and government procurement practices that have transnational effects. {/quote]
-- Richard N. Gardner Foreign Affairs, April 1974 (Foreign Affairs is the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations. Gardner has held a number of posts in the U.S. State Department.)


liberals were thinking of this before Reagan even got close to the WH.... but you keep being a deer in headlights, wanting to bash Reagan, when this was put in place well before him





― Zbigniew Brzezinski
Where do you get this idea that Reagan opposed it? That is just utter nonsense. The idea was part of his 1980 campaign.
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Old 04-12-2020, 12:46 AM
 
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That’s just so opposite the truth I genuinely worry about sources of information.
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Old 04-12-2020, 03:34 AM
 
Location: Free State of Florida
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[quote=man4857;57819991]***Free trade benefits both economies, this is a basic macroeconomics 101 lesson. Nothing wrong with free trade. Isolationism doesn't work.

The problem is, nobody has the political will to push back on corporate America's interests. The taxation system right now rewards investors and wealth owners - not the workers. Executives and CEOs will get away with as much of it as possible obviously. Shipping jobs overseas, stock buybacks, etc.. you name it meanwhile regular Joe has been fighting for a pay raise for the longest time and can't get it.

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***Insert the words "fair and balanced" here, and I agree. I'm not advocating isolationism.

We do not have fair & balanced free trade with China. It's unfair & unbalanced, & costing us Billions.

China doesn't allow Americans to own land, real estate, or company's in China. That's not free trade. America allows Chinese those rights here, so we are pro-free trade, but they are not.

Last week China stopped 3M from shipping N-95 masks 3M manufactured in China, to the U.S.. Is that free trade?

China denied selling refined rare Earth minerals to its WTO trading partners...is that free trade?

China will not respect our intellectual property. That destroys the trust free trade is built upon, and its stealing, thus China is undermining free trade.

Our politicians threw any attempt at balanced trade with China out the window for their own personal financial gain. There is nothing balanced about our trade with China. Our trade deficit harms our economy, and costs us American jobs. Its past time to bring a lot of those jobs back, starting with all defense and medical related manufacturing.

We have given China the upper hand, and it must stop, or we must retract from China like Japan is now doing. We cannot continue to trade with China unless its free, fair & balanced where both sides are playing by the same rules.

I'd also add, that to continue free trade with the U.S., China must close its wet markets as they pose catastrophic risk to the U.S., and to the rest of the World.


Please detail "pushing back on America's Corp interests" what are 3 action steps you prescribe?

What tax changes would you make?
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