Free trade is not some you 'reform'. It just happens.
Where has it happened? We have had tariffs since the 1790s. We have over 1200 of them now. Where is this free trade you imagine? Free trade does not exist.
Free trade is not some you 'reform'. It just happens.
yeah, that group is the poor. The real crooks are the wealthy like Maddoff and Trump who steal in the mega millions. You rightys whine like the bigots you are about people who are far more like you than white-collar criminals. We are being systematically looted by those on top.
should we have monopoly busting laws?
in the case of monopolies all the alleged benefits of "free trade" are gone. and usually fascism (state capture) is involved.
Why do you think trade with China will completely cease until they pass some kind of bill of rights??
If global warming was largely responsible for this ' cyclone bomb'- as they say- and looting has become a hallmark of climatic disasters- then America's future can be expected to be wracked by more and more frequent domestic disasters with more than a hint of poverty and accompanying civil war.
So- are a thousand overseas military bases necessary ? Charity starts at home.
so then restricting these things is not anti-free trade. we agree.No. There is nothing wrong with child labor.
There IS something wrong with abuse of labor though. Turning children into slaves, as factories in London once did, is just slavery again. That is theft of labor and NOT free trade.
Free trade is not some you 'reform'. It just happens.
Yes, that's what I said, but thanks for restating it. Your inability to understand statistics, however, I fear is not something I can fix through JPP.
You don't deal with facts or reality being the schizo that you are.
No. Monopoly busting is government interference in markets...fascism.
A monopoly is not fascism. A government 'busting it up' is fascism. You might even say it's 'state capture' to have a government bust up a monopoly (why is there only ONE monopoly's commission?).
Monopolies left alone, will cease to exist. It is unstable. Such companies get too large to maneuver in the marketplace. It isn't long before some little company comes along and beats them with a better or cheaper product (usually both!). The little guy can maneuver quickly in the marketplace. The big 'monopoly' can't. Like a large dinosaur, it lumbers around and doesn't even see it's own demise coming.
Examples exist by the thousands, including some notables:
* Microsoft blowing the IBM monopoly out of the water.
* CDC competing against IBM at their own game and beating them.
* Linux and open source blowing the Microsoft monopoly out of the water. Microsoft has lost the automotive market, the embedded market, the entertainment system market, they are very distant number 2 in the game console market, and they are now losing a lot of the desktop market. When Microsoft comes around to the motherboard manufactures or chip manufactures to insist on some feature to lock them into Windows, those manufacturers tell Microsoft to blow it out their left nostril. They can do this because Microsoft no longer controls the market.
* The 'big three' automakers no longer have control of the market in the States. Now Toyota, Subaru, and Honda have completely turned their world upside down.
* Cell phones are currently divided up between Android (Google) and Apple (Microsoft got blown out of that market too!). Already the open sourced cell phone initiative is producing results. Soon open Linux phones will become more common. Samsung, Motorola, and LG already offer phones capable of this.
* Twitter lost most of it's revenue to Gab, an open source alternative.
Monopolies can only continue to exist WITH THE HELP OF GOVERNMENT (in other words, fascism). An example:
DuPont corporation, with it's monopoly on R134a. The entire Church of the Ozone Hole was created by DuPont and the government because they were losing their patent rights and their monopoly on R12.
yeah, that group is the poor. The real crooks are the wealthy like Maddoff and Trump who steal in the mega millions. You rightys whine like the bigots you are about people who are far more like you than white-collar criminals. We are being systematically looted by those on top.
Where has it happened? We have had tariffs since the 1790s. We have over 1200 of them now. Where is this free trade you imagine? Free trade does not exist.
Not caused by 'climate disaster' (there is no such thing). It's caused by Democrats and the way they let criminals roam the streets![]()
no the fascism is usually with the monoply or cartel, conjoining with government in fascism.
for the record, do you believe in busting up monopolies, realizing that the benefits to all of free trade are lost in monopolistic situations?
The authoritarian lock-down lasted 6 days, and the city still cant get the streets cleared. What we have here is gross incompetence and abusing the citizens.
America will see a lot more of this as the Revolution consolidates power.
Well, what have we learned from volsrock's excellent thread identifying a cultural problem in America?
One thing gleamed from this thread is that a particular group has a propensity to crime and violence.
Another is that one group prefers to ignore it and call those who report it (the FBI and the Justice Dept) racists.
What we have learned is that after over 400 posts, the far left loons, after being led, kicking and screaming, produced only two or three posters who finally acknowledged this fact.
Intentional obtuseness does not solve problems.