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Originally Posted by Clocker
I showed you mine, now you show me yours.
By definition, fair trade as determined by the government is the opposite of free trade. Why does it have to be balanced? There is a liquor store near me with which I have a totally unbalanced trade situation. I buy stuff from them, they buy nothing from me. I am happy with that, and they appear to be also.
How many states have an unbalanced trade situation with California, buying more produce, high tech services, etc., than they sell to California. Why is that not a problem for those states?
So if BMW get upset with us, they can dump their US car factories and crush our economy? How would that work?
A lot of "American" assets are not owned by US citizens. How many foreign interests own what percentage of GE or Ford? It doesn't matter. Those foreign owners of US assets care more about their personal investments than their home country politics.
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Clocker, I often look for an entree point into the thread. Today we are all over trade, I'll tell you in a general we trusted a cartload of asshole politicians and instead of operating in the best interest of these United States they sold us down the river. China has many company's running at no profit to supply jobs to their mainland, they are commies and can force that. I am in no way saying this is always the case but it is way different there. Here we have a duly elected President who operates hands on in being negotiator in deals, I say do not sell this President short because he loves our country. As a whole this country is not in the mood in trusting another cartload of asshole politicians in trade, just watch John Kasich & Jeff Flake get ZERO traction next run for the Presidency.
