Earl (01-18-2020)
The smoke and mirrors grifter who breaks things and then pretends to make progress by leaps and bounds by bringing it back to the way it was before he broke it.So there we have it. The long-awaited shiny new trade deal with China, inked at a ceremony at the White House on Wednesday in the interstitial space before the Senate impeachment trial dominates the news cycles. If you detect a note of skepticism already creeping in, it’s because this pseudo-deal deserves not just skepticism but calling out as a dramatic failure of U.S. policy that will have lasting and deleterious effects. The deal simply restores the U.S.-China relationship to where it was pre-President Donald Trump, declares victory in areas that don’t matter as much as they did and has cost the U.S. billions in the meantime.
Nothing that China has agreed to, however, departs markedly from what it agreed to during the Obama administration. In 2015, President Barack Obama and Premier Xi Jinping announced an end to cyber-intellectual property theft and embarked on a next round of negotiations over market access. By 2016, many experts believed that China was indeed upholding its commitments, more or less, and the two countries were meeting regularly to hash out issues.
After two years of tariffs and mounting hostility, however, the agreement struck has cost the United States more than $30 billion to subsidize American farmers to compensate for Beijing’s retaliatory refusal to buy American agricultural goods. It has cost American consumers tens of billions in tariffs. It has forced U.S. companies to diversify their supply chains out of China at an additional cost of many billions.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-china-t...183752169.html
Last edited by Cinnabar; 01-18-2020 at 12:28 AM.
BLUEXITA Modest Proposal For Separating Blue States From Red
Dear Red-State Trump Voter,
Let’s face it, guys: We’re done.
It is a tragedy that so much of the work that so many men and women toiled at for so long to make this a better country, and a better world, has been thrown away, leaving us all in such needless peril.
This is why our separation in all but name is necessary.
https://newrepublic.com/article/1409...mp-red-america
Earl (01-18-2020)
Guno צְבִי (01-18-2020)
It was a win if you want to believe it.
nothing that China has agreed to, however, departs markedly from what it agreed to during the Obama administration. In 2015, President Barack Obama and Premier Xi Jinping announced an end to cyber-intellectual property theft and embarked on a next round of negotiations over market access. By 2016, many experts believed that China was indeed upholding its commitments, more or less, and the two countries were meeting regularly to hash out issues.
Earl (01-18-2020)
The only way that you can call this trade deal a win is the Chinese will buy from people that trump wants them to buy from. In essence, it is a monumental bribe to trump supporters to make up for him letting them down on the economy.
But it is far from conservatism. Not just is the government picking winners and losers (not the market), but one man is picking winners and losers(trump). It is a reversion to fascist economics where a "strong man" directs the economy, and decides who should win and lose.
Earl (01-18-2020)
Althea (01-20-2020), Guno צְבִי (01-18-2020)
ROFL.. because the economy is awful!
there is no centralized market planning by the US - even China stopped that crap with Maos "Great Leap(s) Forward"But it is far from conservatism. Not just is the government picking winners and losers (not the market), but one man is picking winners and losers(trump). It is a reversion to fascist economics where a "strong man" directs the economy, and decides who should win and lose.
China has SOE ( state owned enterprises) which is a hybrid - but still not any central planning.
Other then this I have no clue what you are trying to say here
I don't know how you were diverted / You were perverted too
I don't know how you were inverted / No one alerted you
Earl (01-18-2020)
Earl (01-18-2020)
Althea (01-20-2020), Guno צְבִי (01-18-2020)
to be fair, for lib'ruls it was a loss.......
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
Earl (01-18-2020)
What gives trump the right to decide industries with more liberals should lose, and industries with more conservatives should win? Why should trump replace the free market?
It seems like bribes when trump demands that China buys from certain people, and certain things in order to trade with America.
Earl (01-18-2020)
Guno צְבִי (01-18-2020)
Earl (01-18-2020), PostmodernProphet (01-18-2020)
PostmodernProphet (01-18-2020)
you do realize that the whole purpose of the dispute over trade with China was to CREATE a free market, right?......tariffs were used to STOP China from refusing to buy from certain people and certain things......I realize you're new and you've got less than a hundred posts but if you want to be taken seriously you need to avoid posting stupid shit.........
Isaiah 6:5
“Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”
Earl (01-18-2020)
Althea (01-20-2020)
That is a sad statement on trump. Obama's economic victories were usually economic victories for all of America, not just some of America.
Getting the Chinese to promise to buy some agricultural goods from certain states is not a victory for me. I am not a farmer in Iowa. In a general sense, I am happy the Iowa farmers got their bribe, it will probably help them, but what did we have to give up to get that.
China is trying to decouple from America, and build its own technology. Americans are being frozen out of that. As a computer engineer, this is going to hit me hard. trump sold me out to help a bunch of Iowa farmers.
The worst part about it is the Iowa farmers seem very happy that the rest of America is being screwed. They really seem to hate us. When I ask why such the strong hatred for most of America, I never can get a straight answer.
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