Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump promised to take on the Republican establishment’s big money throughout the 2016 GOP primary.
Now that he’s the Republican presidential candidate, he backed up that promise by laying out an economic plan that would be a radical shift for United States trade policy,
And it left the traditional GOP fat cats furious.
Tuesday, Trump vowed to tear up the nation’s trade deals, threatened new tariffs and called for a new era of economic “Americanism” in a speech that underscored just how far removed he is from typical GOP orthodoxy.
The speech, delivered on a factory floor in western Pennsylvania on Tuesday, outlined Trump’s promise to restore millions of lost factory jobs by backing away from decades of U.S. trade policy. The approach, which represents a significant break from years of Republican Party advocacy for unencumbered trade between nations, drew immediate condemnation from Democrats as well as GOP establishment leaders.
In his 35-minute speech, Trump directly targeted Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton, blaming her and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, for the loss of millions of manufacturing jobs. And he threatened to exit the more than 2-decade-old North American Free Trade Agreement and vowed to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, an agreement among 12 Pacific Rim nations that has yet to take effect.
“This wave of globalization has wiped out totally, totally our middle class,” Trump said, standing in front of pallets of recycled aluminum cans on a factory floor. “It doesn’t have to be this way. We can turn it around, and we can turn it around fast.”
At a rally later Tuesday, Trump declared that TPP had been “done and pushed by special interests who want to rape our country.”
In the speech, he pointed to China as a source of many of America’s economic woes, promising to label that country a currency manipulator and slap new tariffs on America’s leading source of imports, a decision with the potential to increase the cost of consumer goods. Trump has argued previously that that the higher prices would be compensated by more jobs.
Delivered in a hard-hit Pennsylvania steel town, the speech underscored the central message of Trump’s campaign: that policies aimed at boosting international trade have badly damaged workers and gutted manufacturing towns.
It’s an argument that found support among Republican primary voters, especially working class Americans whose wages have stagnated in recent years.
But the speech drew a quick and scathing response from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a traditional Republican ally and leading business lobby.
“Under Trump’s trade plans, we would see higher prices, fewer jobs, a weaker economy,” the Chamber said on its Twitter feed, directing readers to a blog post that said Trump’s policies would lead to millions of job losses and a recession.
Many economists have dismissed Trump’s promise to immediately restore manufacturing jobs as dubious at best, given the impact of automation and the many years it typically takes to negotiate trade agreements.
While renegotiating tougher deals with America’s foreign trading partners might help some businesses, manufacturing as a share of total U.S. jobs has been slipping for several decades. The number of such jobs has risen slightly since the end of the Great Recession, but the introduction of robotics and access to cheaper foreign markets has reduced U.S. factory employment to a total last seen around 1941.
Trump’s speech also took aim at Clinton, blaming her husband’s administration for the negative impacts of globalization. He cited Bill Clinton’s support of NAFTA, which aimed to reduce barriers to trade between the U.S., Canada and Mexico, and China’s entry into the World Trade Organization.
“Throughout her career – her whole career – she has betrayed the American worker. Never forget that,” Trump said.
Clinton’s position on trade has been a frequent attack line for Trump. She has supported some agreements, opposed others and flipped on both NAFTA and TPP, which she promoted dozens of times as secretary of state.
She now says she will back trade deals only if they fulfill a three-pronged test of creating “good jobs,” raising wages and improving national security.
Tuesday’s speech came as Trump is working to re-tool his message for the general election. In addition to a slew of new hires, he has been delivering prepared speeches aimed at calming the nerves of GOP donors and others concerned about his often combative style.
But his toned-down rhetoric didn’t last long. At a rally Tuesday evening in St. Clairsville, Ohio, in addition to comparing the TPP to rape, Trump reiterated his call for the return of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques in the fight against Islamic State militant. “You have to fight fire with fire,” he declared.
The comment drew cheers and chants of “USA! USA!” from the crowd.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Finally someone talking reality. Millions of young and middle aged Americans can’t find good jobs. Only part time low wage ones. The Clinton’s claim to have spent decades helping the working class. They became multi millionaires in the process.
AND millions of older people with proven experience can’t find any non-minimum wage job
And if you vote for Crooked Killary Rotten Clinton, America will become decidedly worse!
I urge everyone to o to youtube.com and watch: EXPOSING THE CLINTON CRIME FAMILY to find out how devastatingly the Clintons are. They have committed crimes from money laundering, to drug trafficing, rape and murder. How did they get away with it?
Donald Trump should expose them and he will be sure to win the election
Why is she not in Jail? Why doesn’t anyone speak about her and Bills little sweatshop in Port De Prince ? Talk about Human rights violations.
Because the charges are all [email protected] and there is no proof so charges will never be made. Repeating a lie enough times doesn’t make it true, yet you nitwits and Faux Noise keep trying that approach.
Because all the brainless like Oracle drink her Koolaid and like her husband she is made of teflon. If they acted against her then all the liberals will have to run to their safe spaces. We can’t have that now can we ? We can’t hyave the government doing their jobs. You seriously think that Lynch is going to do anything that might resemble law enforcement that will make her look bad to the liberal Koolaid drinkers ?
I for one will be glad when all these liberals abort themselves out of existence.
Sorry, Mr. Gordon, you’ll just have to accept the fact that nothing is going to happen to Hillary. So don’t waste your emotion/energy on this. Just hope there are more sane than insane voters next November. Yes, hope that Oracle Guy is in the minority. But try to concentrate on the positive ideas in his campaign. Ideas about corporate/individual taxes for example. These ideas, if implemented, will produce more jobs/commerce. Stay positive if you can.
Can’t find any job regardless of the wage. I am 61 an unable to find work in my country because I don’t speak spanish. I am over qualified for many jobs but even those jobs want us to all speak spanish.
What a load! I could live another 30-40 years. I should do that how? Should I get a shopping cart and begun dumpster diving?! Hell no! Stop discriminating against me for speaking the language of my country!
The Clintons have used and abused all of America!
I’m 57 and get what you mean entirely, as in my personal job search I see many in positions I could easily handle that illegally came here and are barely able to speak English. I only am not looking still because my mother had a stroke that left her disabled and my daughter gave birth to a baby girl, so I have two jobs that demand m every minute.
Our government always say that America has one Idealogy, democracy, and one language, ENGLISH. But the fact is, America has now two language, English and Spanish. Go to almost all government offices and see those signs, directional or instructional posters, and you see our English language translated to Spanish. Worst is that most Americans are being discriminated in job openings because they do not speak Spanish, as many job openings indicate preference for applicants to be able to speak Spanish.
I agree, just turned 61 myself. Unemployed now for 13 years, gave up looking for a job in 2009….usually I get laughed at .. No one wants to hire a college graduate for a H.S. level job in my area of Northwestern Arizona. Also, I did work for a fortune 500 company for 18 1/2 years till 1998. Even after that…. was only able to find H.S. or H.S. dropout level jobs….like a courier / messenger…..THANK GOD FOR FOOD STAMPS!
BORN IN AMERICA………….
Shemp;
If you’re only 61, how old are your brothers Moe and Curly?
Hi Shemp, maybe this will give you a laugh or at least a giggle. I was a manager with the largest telecommunications company in the world. Always excellent appraisials, salary merit top for 12 years.All of a sudden all the older managers were surplused and dumped. I talked to EEO about suing. They gave me permission to sue but they would not take action on my be half. Fat chance of me doing anything with that, they. had more lawyers on retainer that I had fingers. To get around us old coots they had also let one younger manager go. The funny part came in a few years later when several big hurricanes hit the US in a short period. Well guess what they had gotten rid of all the managers that had been through many storms and restoration after. I received a call offering me 35 to $40 and hour plus overtime, and all expenses covered. ( I may be off a couple bucks on the pay, been a long time so don’t shoot me.) To the best of my knowledge they got one taker. The rest of us told them to get F*d. Sure felt good lol.
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Say it like it is Gail. I’m an old guy, US Army infantry and I remember Harry Truman and the tough times during WWII.
But the present economic climate is worse. I don’t like Trump and I despise the clinton woman. I like people like you and others on this blog … Just keep saying it like it is. Keep pounding at the truth. Politicians are afraid of the truth because they are the cause of our problems. Just keep fighting If they don’t like it piss on them.
At my age I’m leaving this fight in the good hands of people like you.
Keep fighting … they can’t beat the truth.
Thanks.
You have that exactly right. My wife is 50, has been a Customer Service Manager for the previous 8 years and an Assistant Manager for the last 2 years at Walmart, got hurt and had to take time off but didn’t file workmans comp against them and Walmart still let her go. Now, she tried to go to work at a new Costco here as a cashier, but she is 50 and over qualified to go to work at Costco as a cashier. HUH?? All she is asking for is a cashiers job, not a Customer Service Manager or Assistant Manager, just a cashier. We need Trump more than we have needed anyone since Reagan. And remember, they said the same things about Reagan when he ran and won by a landslide. So get on the #Trumptrain.
Do you ‘need Trump’ to write a letter to Costco and tell them they need to hire her? What exactly do you think Trump will do for anyone other than himself or his own companies?
Gail, I feel your pain, it is a sad but true fact that you have stated. These sorry ass politicians better shape up in a hurry. The hurricane is coming fast. If they cant get on the American band wagon we need to show them the door fast. Let them see what the real world is like. Wish I could serve one term and draw full salary pension. I will personally gurantee that I will help defeat any piece of crap that tries to F* ck with the vote and wishes of the American people. This bunch that wants to stop Trump at any cost with any means need to SHUT THE F* up and go suck your thumb or something similar. I am one fed up pissed off old redneck and I have had enough.
FLY THE FLAG UP SIDE DOWN SIGNAFYING A NATION IN DISTRESS, FORWARD THIS AND DO THIS AS IT IS AND WILL BE A SAFE FORM OF PICKETTING AND MAKING A MEDIA STATEMENT.THIS CAN AND WILL WORK.DO IT NOW BEFORE THE ELECTIONS
Dovid, sounds really smart – a sign of nation in distress – how simple, and how easy. Thanks.
The moral of the story…..Clinton and Trump are the two worst candidates that man has ever endorsed. Karma! Will come back on us for putting one of these liberals in. They are ruthless and the dirtiest players in the game!
You must like Obama lol lol what a waste of crap go trump
Opposition to Trump does not necessarily translate into support for Obama or the Hildabeast. I don’t trust any of them–Trump included.
Brads, I understand your feeling and respect them. I personally believe that Trump will be a much better president than many people think. You are correct about hill-r-kill being worst ever to run for president. I will also say that the current occupant of the oval office is the absolute worst. I did not vote for him either time but honestly hoped that he would at least try to follow his campaign promises made to the American people. I guess that carrying that heavy Nobel Prize around was just to much. If I had any doubts about Trump being the correct one to vote for all I would have to do is look and listen to all the back stabbing crap from demo (expected) and from the g o p (unexpected). He has the whole dam bunch running scared and crapping all over them selves. I honestly believe he will do his absolute best to turn America around and head it toward greatness again. After 7 1/2 years of hate mongering, catering to Americas enemies and doing everything possible to split America apart. I think this next 6 months is going to be very interesting. I haven’t followed up on this, but I read today that the o is going to ignore the supreme court rulings that recently came down.
Born in South and proud of it:
Every word you said is a FACT and I appreciate your sentiments and reasoning. However, that is the very reason that I and others are worried for Trump. I certainly hope there are no physical attacks on him and I pray that Gods protecting hand will shield him from all harm.
I am Republican by choice and Southern by the Grace of God…… Just Thankful for all his blessings.
GOD BLESS AMERICA. GOD PROTECT DONALD TRUMP!
You are right, it is all about the ability to fulfill promises. We have heard many good promises before
OF COURSE YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT CLINTON…..YOU DON;T KNOW ENOUGH OF
WHAT TRUMP DID BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU DON’T WANT TO GIVE HIM A CHANCE.
ALL i KNOW ABOUT TRUMP IS THAT HE LOVES OUR COUNTRY AND WILL DO ANYTHING IN HIS POWER TO KEEP IT AMERICA AND NOT SOME MEXICAN, CHINESE OR ARAB COUNTRY.
WE ARE AMERICANS AND ENGLISH IS OUR LANGUAGE. WE HAVE BEEN BORN HERE AND WE WANT TO WORK AND LIVE HERE IN PEACE. BUT DO THE OTHERS. THEY WANT TO CHANGE OUR CONSTITUTION TO MIMIC THEIR COUNTRIES. WHY DON’T THEY GO BACK AND STAY THERE…GO MR. TRUMP WITH OUR PRAYERS AND BACKING.
Brad, that isn’t true. Trump is extremely honest. He’s not a corrupt politician so he isn’t polished in telling lies.
Brads: You are 100% right about Hillary, but 100% wrong about Trump. He is the first & only hope there is for this country, after being destroyed by our politicians of both parties for years, & especially by this last administration. Any one who cannot see this has got to be brain dead. Both parties do not want Trump to win, for the simple reason they do not want to lose their corrupt gravy train.
The only people the Clintons have ever helped is themselves to billions. Every five letter trade deal made in the past 30 years has been detrimental to America and the now nonexistent middle class. NAFTA was just the first one, coincidentally signed by Billy Boy. That started the downward spiral of the U.S. economy. While Wall Street greed and profits grew and grew thanks to the government treasury printing machines the American economy went everywhere else but up. Trump is absolutely right about all of these bad trade deals. And when something he says or does pisses off the GOP Establishment you know it is the right thing to do. Our present political parties, both of them, are directly responsible for the economic conditions in America today. The ones that sucks so badly.
A BIG AMEN Maxx….We need Trump….. His temperament reminds me of President Trumans comments . …
How true the Time is Now America Trump is and will be the People’s President We the People a Rule We The People Hold the Biggest Power just in Voting One Day for your Country For Generations to Come We the People Have The Power to throw all the Fat Cats out like Graham Ryan McDonnel etc.
It is my Feeling Paul Ryan needs to step Down from Soeaker of the House He is not Worthy of the position He Can not be Trusted He is not true to the people He and all the rest are there to long to be Honest to Serve get paid should not be a Career position
LIMITED TERMS NEEDS TO BE PUT IN PLACE Lets Roll We Need Trump
Why limit the Term, when you can vote him and others of their ilk OUT? Just do it, vote them out.
ALSO HITLER, , ISSL AND THE ACTION OF ALL PAST AND PRESSENT DESPOTTS
Sorry, bud–they were despots or communists. Trump would be the first true AMERICAN President since REAGAN–who by the way, was another NOT life-long politician!
They are sickco
So don’t vote for Hitler but vote for Mussolini. There is no compromise for evil!
Maxx, you are so right. you can always tell when Trump is correct about something. the GOP elites, (pukes) get mad as hell and the DemoRats squeal like pigs at Trump. Trump has hit a nerve with both parties cause they don’t want him to stop their gravy train. The country needs Trump and his ideas NOW! If you don’t believe in Trump then get out of the way cause Hillary the Hun sure won’t give a damn about the working class people. She hasn’t before, what makes anyone think she would as president? As Newt Gingrich said, “both parties are a cesspool of corruption.” Trump/Gingrich 2016!! Save America.
Absolutely! BOTH parties are a cesspool of corruption!
Sounds like our main parties here Conservatives and Labour being capitalists and socialists.
How true You need to educate more people about the Washington Dishonest Group.
So right!
Amen…well stated!
Yes agree
DUMP TRUMP now!!!! He is a RACIST and the bigget CROOK in the World!!!!!
Well, Bob, you are a dumbass. Trump has the right answers for America to return to prosperity and since you are a liberal probably without a job on welfare, you really are just a POS and should just keep your yap shut.
Eight years ago when Obama was running he vowed to dismantle the Capitalistic system in America and no one listened to him or thought that it was just campaign talk. But you see what he has done to us with his socialistic policies and his stance on borders, the economy and foreign policy. In a recent conversation Donald Trump said,”I view America just like I do one of my corporations. I receive income from sales and spend the money in intelligent ways to increase the power and position of the company that received it. America receives its income through tax revenue, but it doesn’t spend it in rational and sensible ways, it pays too much for everything and I will change that so that the income of America is spent in Intelligent ways”.
To me this is the thinking of a man who knows how to deal with large sums of money and spend it in intelligent ways, so I think we should give him the chance, don’t you?
Yes, I know it isn’t going to happen over night but he will turn this ship around and away from the devastating storm ahead, I feel it!!!
Abe;
That sounds good and all but 1’st it would require a massive dismantlement of Government. Our Government is a very, very huge enterprise and to whittle it down to a manageable size would be an enormous undertaking with an almost insurmountable odds. How many Republicans have harped about big Government in just the last 20 years as part of their election/re-election campaigns to conveniently forget about it upon their arrival to DC? I’m up for Trump but we need to sweep congress of all incumbents (Democrat/Republican) for Trump’s policies to have any affect.
Abe-
Trump must be unaware of the following:
“100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Debt … all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from government.”
– Grace Commission Report, submitted to President Ronald Reagan on January 15, 1984
That was almost 32.5 years ago – and the situation is MUCH worse, now.
If you believe that I am the messiah!
Don’t be too quick to paint Bob as a Democrat. The Repubs have plenty of those type as well. I am a lifelong Democrat but this year was the 1’st time I ever crossed the line to vote for an elephant in my State’s primary and I may do it again in November. I’m totally repulsed of Hillary and find myself agree-ing with a lot of what the Donald has to say but not all mind you. Trump really needs to clean up his act a bit to reel in more of us Democrats. Immigration-we already have laws on that, they just need to be enforced. Liked what he said in this article about stopping the bleeding of sending our jobs overseas. Romney did his best to sell us down the toilet in that regard–couldn’t help that little poke.
Are you a political hack, a sheeple, or just that dumb? Killery is evil and hell bent on completing the destruction of the USA during her ordained reign.
Saw this on FB a while back….”Obama put this country in the toilet…vote for Hillary, she’ll pull the handle”.
I’m with Trump an if he’s racis so much the better! Anything but Killary!!
I am for Trump and if he is a racist – so be it! I will be a racist right along side him if that is what it takes to get the illegals out of our workplace and reduce the number of immigrant workers being allowed into our country.
I will take a stand with the 42 Million Americans in need of work REGARDLESS of what Hillary and Obama have to say.
I am an American, born and raised here, served 27 years in the military, another 22 years in law enforcement and I love my country and I RESPECT and SUPPORT our constitution and the laws of the land!
Obama has ignored our laws and Hillary has done even worse! Both of these people lie and twist facts and information into what it is not; they can not be trusted!
Trump has finally put into plain English what Americans have been wanting to hear for years. Nothing he says is a surprise for any of this. All Obama cares about now is to buy a NBA team. When the Orlando shootings were taking place he was more interested in sports then calling this a terrorist attack. Why can he nor say those words. That attack was not about gays it was about a man pledging to ISIS his intention to kill for them and then kill himself. This is the most evil terrorist group in my life time.
Pleeese! Are you a Cruzbot???
Bob: You are a idiot. Hillary is a racist saying black people are always late. How about when she got a rapist off raping a 12 year old and she laughing off her ass! She even knew he was guilty. I hear this 12 yr old now much older may be coming out of the woodwork to expose Killary.
Sharon, thank you for bring this up. I was appauled that the soul-less creature Killary was proud of herself as an attorney for defending, and getting off that rapist. Then she surrounds herself by these empty eye women on camera, and she claps, and they clap, like a kindergarten teacher with her charges….”moma Hil will take take of you.she has been the women champion..” Killary the compassionate…(Movie screen goes dark…next comes up THE TRUTH)
In truth: she has enabled her rapist husband, tried to destroy the women who complained, didn’t give a hoot about anyone, just her own selfish interests. Six thousand emails sent to her regarding dangerous situation in the Benghazi Embassy, under her charge, and she couldn’t care less…Told the Senate committee:”No , I have not seen those emails sent to me about (my ) embassy ..Yawn”. (Her) ambassador died, and she said:”So what difference does it make now..” that he, and 3 others died horrible deaths. Google: youtube Benghazi hearings, and be amazed about her behavior.
If you haven’t seen it yet, you owe it to yourself. Do not take media’s”Oh, these are just Republican attacks…” as the truth. Truth is different, see it with YOUR OWN EYES. It takes about 15 minutes to watch, and listen. Better than a movie, Sen. Grayson is polite , smart and fair in asking questions of Hilary.
you mean dump hillary don’t you
Yes we here were called racists every time we TRIED to complain about 3 million foreigners were let into the country by the Labour party so we were pleased when the Tories got in who propyl followed suit.
All out politicians are interested in is themselves and the EU gravy train. (Most but not all).
your a god dam fool if you believe the edtabishment
So… That’s why he hires so many women and minorities, and is getting attacked by COMMIES and socialists?! And has helped so many people you couldn’t even count them–which of course our Obama-directed media chooses to ignore! Sorry but you are one of the brainwashed masses. I wanted Carson and couldn’t stand Trump until I actually researched for MYSELF! It’s people like you who just accept what the left-wingers tell you unquestioningly, who I wish would just stay home on voting day!
every issue and debate has been initiated by Trump-the stories and events of the day were brought to center stage from the beginning by discerning and astuteDonald Trump, His innate ability to forsee the coming dangers,actions and reactions ae uncanny. He is uniquely gifted and positioned to protect and defend this nation and the free world. In January,he predicted the exact atrocity in Belgium, The BelgianPrime Minister is desprate and called upon the world to support Donald Trump, He knowsof what he soeaks. Trump is not typical of political class-he brings a rare form of intellect married with instincts which make the ordinary man shrink and run for cover. He is swift and sure He is confident in leadership and has commanded thousands into a life of prosperity. His generosity knows no bounds.He is compassionate warrior andvalued highly by all those who are privileged to know him. Even his ex-wifes sing his praises. His children are stellar and that is not by accident. Donald Trump has no need of this office-he is not seeking the career position for money, fame or power. he already has it The others need to be President for their own personal gain. They are quick to accept the monetary support to fund their livelihood, their travels,dining, staffing, daily living needs. It is a government welfare system they have been accustomed to, that means Sanders, Clinton, Cruz and Kasich, They are prostitutes to the highest bidders. they take direction from look over their shoulders to the donors and the kingmakers who pull the strings and keep them tethered to the machine, pumping out the responses and actions that please the elites behind the curtain. Its is a sinister game they play with American taxpayers’ trust.you are being duped if you think that Cruz, Kasich or the Dem Candidates are truly in step with the needs of this nation and how to achieve them. They are practices, rehearsed and handled. ONLY TRUMP has the tools and the mind to overcome the disease that has become Washington. The others, despite their claims or wishes, have become part of the system and are a danger to freedom of America and the world,
Dump Trump now you say! Suck those words back into your lungs and let them digest what you just said. Now while they are digesting your brain is running 100 mph trying to figure out whether what you just said makes any sense at all. If Crooked Hilary gets to be President I will leave this country and let liberals destroy what we the American people have spent hundreds of years making.
Bob your are so full of [email protected]&t, the true & real racist is that damned POS white trash [email protected]&CH Hitlery Killery ROTTON Ayatollah Khoemeni Clinton is the true & real racist. I take you want that damned POS white trash [email protected]&CH Hitlery Killery ROTTON Ayatollah Khoemeni Clinton as our next Figurehead who will just totally destroy the United States & the free world.
Typical commie-speak.
Whenever you can’t find facts lie like hell and scream “racist:”
what a jack-ass don’t be stupid bob. your dumber then a box of rocks.
and would you please educate all of us and the world by telling us who is, in your opinion, the only qualified person to be president……..and, would you list as many ways as you can of how this person improved any part of the American condition? please use facts and not out-of-control emotional drivel; footnotes from authoritative sources would be a welcome sight, too. Thanks
Bob, quit listening to CNN and think for yourself.
DUMP BOB….!!! UNEDUCATED LIVING IN THE CAVE… YOU KNOW NOTHING BUT LIVING IN CRIMINAL LIFE…YOU NEED TO PUT TO SLEEP.
Bob: June 29
The biggest racist is in the White House now in case you didn’t notice.
Way to go Donald keep up the good work, the American majority is with you no matter what the GOP or dems. Or the poles say. We need you as are new president to make America great again, we don’t want any more of Obama crap. The people are going to do the electing this year not the Wall Street crowd or bankers, people are tired of getting screwed, ripped off, sold out by the so called elite.
Hillary does claim she has spent years and years fighting for the rights and benefits for children and women! I don’t think she opens her mouth without her suggestions that she is the best thing that ever happened to other women and kids her comments saying all she ahs done for them doe not come out.
– – – – – It makes one ask just – – – WHAT it is she has done!
If truly interested go to her voting record when she was a U.S. Senator.
She was there for six years – – in that six years she only wrote, or endorsed, ONE BILL that had anything to do with women’s rights and benefits for kids – – ONE BILL IN SIX YEARS! That was the same period of time she was voting on other bill without reading the facts relating to the bill and did it “because someone else told her to vote YES!” We might “assume” she was to busy fighting for women’s rights but – with only ne bill it makes one wonder why she did not have time to do more , to read the bills others were submitting, or at least accept a part of her responsibilities as a U.S. Senator!
not in my book shes to much of a lire
Main street…( And Beyond ! ) For too many years There has been No JOBS For Our People. The Minimum-wage jobs, and even the part-time minimum pay jobs have been Disappearing…. The Jobs That Used to BE ‘ Reserved ‘ For our Kids In their Last year or two of high School..And for After graduation. But Those ”Minimum-wage Jobs Have Now Been Usurped by Hungry Adults Who are Trying to feed and Furnish A Roof over their Families` head… And Where does This Leave our Kids in need of a job to Pay For Their Needs . And lets` tell it like it is.. So Many of these Young are OUT ON THEIR OWN.. Because Their Parents Simply Cannot DO IT ALL>>>ON minimum wage.. [ or with no job to their name !] YES ! Something HAS to Change for the Better Very Soon NOW. TRUMP Does See ”The Handwriting on The Wall”..And Will Do something About THIS ”no Decent paying Jobs. Lets` give Him a Chance. This Bunch that has had ”The floor” for the past couple of decades..have only made matters impossible for This Country.. Shipping decent paying employment Out of Our Country < And Leaving Our Citizens in the Lurch.. Was So Totally Unforgivable. YES..WE Need A Thorough House Cleaning.. From TOP to Bottom of This Govmt. "Trump ! HELP !! ''
The Clinton’s are true to their name and cause–traitors. Trump’s ideas are straight forward, simple and true.
100% of what Clinton says she supports is OBAMA’S Meaning, everything will either stay the same or get worse. We need someone with a non political mind set, a man who knows what needs to be done to save AMERICA. Of course these CRONIE’S are crying, they are thinking of their own under the table bank accounts, NOT OURS. Trump is a fighter and he will fight for America & WE THE PEOPLE
Does anyone want real results?
PRAY …..I say PRAY like you’ve never prayed before and then watch what happens when God answers the prayers of those who truly know Him and love Him.
Lift up you voice to the Most High and seek His face and His mercy upon this once God fearing nation that we may remain in peace, and free to do as we have done until He comes again!
That’s the ONLY thing that is going to save this nation!
Peace
Hillary has NEVER produced a single job. Ask Bill
She is the worst choice for our country. Her And the wanna be Indian.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Trump will MAKE AMERICA GREAT!!!! AGAIN!!!!!!!!!
Which single “job” are you referring to?
No jobs she had produced, ever!
Definitely!!
The GOP should be abolished. I don’t know who’s worse, Dems, or Repubs??? I’m glad I’m an independent, I wish Donald Trump would run as a 3rd new party, I believe he’s got the backing, of most patriots behind him, and now this being a different kind of election coming up, I think that he could very well pull it off, without the GOP.
The media is trying to keep us scared to make any unrational moves, because they don’t want Trump to win. What a sick government/congress we’ve got, but it’s our fault for not keeping them in line for the past 30 years or so.
He could have ran as an independent and got no attention, or very little as Gary Johnson always gets. Fortunately he is genius!
I TOTALLY AGREE! I COULD NOT HAVE SAID IT ANY BETTER!
DOWN WITH CLINTCITCH, GO TRUMP! GO TRUMP! GO TRUMP!
TRUMP IS OUR “GREAT WHITE HOPE” OF THE CENTURY! I PRAY TO
GOD CONSTANTLY THAT HE WINS THE ELECTION AND
She did produce one job while first lady….it was filled by Monica Lewinsky
Sorry, that last post should be posted by JR-IA
THANK YOU !!!! I needed a GOOD laugh today !! I busted out laughing when I read your remarks !! and agree whole heartedly !
JR : You get a standing ovation for your comment
Jay Leno would have loved that one.
Make trump do what he says he will. Elect the lyin’ baby and make him move his overseas business here, unless he is a complete idiot. Send him lots of money and lets get the guy in the white house so I can get a job making TRUMP neckties … …………………..
Yes – isn’t it amazing that the American people believe in Trump so much they donate money to help our country. Whereas Clinton gets money in exchange for favors from countries that want to kill the American people.
The “lying baby” ??????? We have had nothing but lies and BS for almost 8 years from the demoSCUM/rino party. I find it very refreshing to hear a candidate answer a question directly. Whether he can accomplish everything he says — will remain to be seen but one fact is for certain TRUMP CAN’T BE ANY WORSE THAN THE LAST 3 FRAUDS IN OUR WHITE HOUSE, and 30 times over better than the demoSCUM witch.
Right On!!!
double right on go usa …………….
Your sick, pathetic, lying, back door policy democrats (as well as Bush 41 & bush 43) have done SQUAT for more than 25 years and the Clintons were the worst of all. And please don’t inject Bill’s successful administration of a healthy economy and balanced budget as an argument. If the Republicans hadn’t taken over the house and senate in 1994 he would have been another Hugo Chavez. Newt Gingrich forced him to the center and made him become fiscally responsible but of course Clinton got the credit. OK, I guess that’s fair play but Hillary has NEVER accomplished ANYTHING. She does not have her name on anything in the form of accomplishment that is significant. I think she had a few post offices named and a few other insignificant things, but she is thought to be a great leader. Why?? What has she ever lead that was successful? BENGHAZI??? Because her last name is Clinton and everyone still loves Bill (except the hundreds of women that he raped or molested) many think she can lead the world’s greatest power. She wasn’t able to lead a small troop on a remote outpost in Benghazi. Trump has great accomplishments in the business world (even though he has had several bankruptcies) and it’s time to give a businessman a chance to see if it can be done some way other than “politics as usual”. Hillary owes so many favors around the world that she positively CANNOT do things with the American people’s best interest. She owes, owes, owes, owes. And most of these favors are due to foreign interests (many of which are Muslim countries). Do you think she’ll renege on her dues?? Not likely. How do you think she’ll pay back her huge Saudi donations to the Clinton Foundation?????????? And even a bigger question, why did they donate these millions of dollars in the first place? I’d love to hear a response to this question.
You hit the nail on the head! This country needs to start working like a business. The old establishment has to go crooked Hilary and her cronies need to go. I just hope trump will do what he promised to do
I agree, and let’s not forget. Hillary says she’s in favor of women’s rights….and stands with the LBGT community. Then why is she taking 10’s of millions of dollars from countries that oppress women’s rights and, either, imprison or put to death those of the LBGT community?? And let’s not forget about what they do to Christians, which she claims to be.
THAT IS WHY MUSLIN ATTACK AMERICA AND EVEN KILL AMERICAN PEOPLE…, BECAUSE, OF HILLARY OWE, OWE,OWE MONEY TO THE WORLD LEADER…. SO, YEA…, HILLARY CLINTON WANT TO BRING 500 % MORE MUSLIM TO AMERICA…. Who would ever think of that….?? That Woman (Hillary) bring nothing but Trouble after Trouble repeated Time after Time… Do you realize that….??
I am very sure Hillary wants to Kill Us ALL….!! (I Bet On That….!!) Mark my Words….
BRoger Smith: BRAVO !!!!!!
P.S. and don’t print “your comment is awaiting moderation” like you have on my last comments. What do you mean by that?
jwb- Will you please get off the rhetoric of Trump having his products made overseas. The country lost many of its clothing manufacturers to foreign countries starting in the 70’s. Oh, we have a few, there are still some that produce work clothing, some military clothing, and outdoor wear. But, the companies that made men’s shirts, women’s clothing, left years ago. Vanity Fair made women’s undergarments, that company now operates out of Mexico. America had a strong steel industry, that industry now operates at limited capacity. There were many mills in the North East that produced knits and fabrics, they too have moved off shore with the exception of a few.
At present he is doing what all good business men do (making a profit). When he brings the jobs back he will have to follow the same rules as everybody else. Your comment is silly.
JWB is right, but it’ll be a win win for tramp no matter what. If things go well, he’ll claim credit for it. If they don’t (which they won’t), he’ll just blame the previous administration. This is how con men work.
Ray and jwb are ignorant brain dead liberal socialist communist democrat trolls, probably paid by the DNC. They know perfectly well that the reason Donald Trump products come from overseas is because they are not available from manufacturers here. They ALSO KNOW that Trump’s plan to reduce regulations and taxes on manufacturers will entice many of them to return to the United States, thereby increasing gross domestic product and reducing unemployment.
Attention all Trump supporters:
Donald Trump announced his intention to run for the Republican nomination for President of the United States last June. Donald Trump and those of us who support him have been subjected to unwarranted attacks from the day he made the announcement. We have remained true to our beliefs, and we have prevailed. It doesn’t matter than our candidate is the last man standing, and will win in November – the attacks continue. Please ignore the ignorant rants of all those mental little people who post negative comments about Donald Trump and his supporters – they are sore losers., especially the # never Trump group who are neither Republican nor conservative, just RINOs. Just recognize them for what they are – either a liberal socialist communist democrat or a lily livered, mealy mouthed, spineless, gutless, forked tongue, politically correct, double speak, do nothing, go along to get along, afraid of your shadow, girly man or manly woman, new castrati eunuch elite republican establishment phony. Unfortunately for them, they are infected with Trump Derangement Syndrome complicated by Trump Jealousy. Pity them because soon they will have to face facts and say “President Trump”. If they survive this trauma without commitment, hopefully they will slither back under their rocks or creep under their bridge. I replied to a couple of comments before I realized they are nothing more than paid DNC trolls and their only interest is to aggravate and provoke a response.
The only response necessary is —- ROFLMAO.
ROFLMAO
Kind of like the crap Obama and the Hildabeast have been feeding us.
Have you ever been involved with the day to day operation of ANY successful business?
You ever had a job of any kind?
I didn’t think so, kid.
PAY ATTENTION JWB>>>>Given the opportunity to help this Country, he will be able to make his ties here again. Wise up, use your head…..unless you are a Democrat, in which case, just go back to sleep and let people with brains cover for you and keep you safe from the Muslim invasion.
You would need some minimal brain function to work in a Trump tie factory.
jwb is right. Trump has made money by selling his name to companies that are owned by foreigners and create jobs in other countries. As far as what he has done for the US economy, here is a quote from former REPUBLICAN presidential campaign adviser, Mark Slater:
“[Trump is] a charlatan, preposterously posing as a business genius while cheating investors, subcontractors, and his own customers. He’s rich because his father left him a great deal of money. He couldn’t turn a profit with a casino, for crying out loud. The epitome of someone who is famous for being famous, his business model consists mostly these days of selling his surname to a group of (often foreign) investors, who slap it on some vulgar monstrosity that consumers naturally associate with a vulgar reality TV celebrity.”
He inherited 200 million and built it to ten billion. How he did it is not germane to the argument. He can do the same by running the U.S. Gov like a business. He may be a ruthless shark.. but he will soon be our ruthless shark. We need a fast gun like him, right God Damned Now! Now STFU and get back under the bridge.
That is good information. I guess you are the guy who has seen Trump’s tax returns. Could you share them with the rest of the country, please?
Yes, and of course you, like most Americans, would also like to know the color of his underwear, or no deal, right?
Maybe you can tell all of genious how many jobs rotten Hildabeast created? How much money has she given to veterans?How much money has the crooked lyin btch received from countries that execute and torture women and gays? Please in return tell us what Trump has done with the above mentioned.
This country is going down fast because of Hildabeast and Oblamer and you want to keep the status quo. Insane!
My comment is being moderated? Wow
Law5960: You must be a paid troll for Killary!! We know she has hundred’s of them on the internet!! Killary is like a snail and behind her tail she has loads of baggage!!! More than Trump has or ever will!! You are a virus coming out of Killary’s A$$!!
Oh, yes. We just saw how Ant-globalists have recently ‘helped their own countries in the UK, wiping out entire life savings and devaluing the currency. Trump would have all that happen to the U.S. as well.
Shut up if you have nothing intelligent to say.
Moron
Try getting your facts right or state it is fiction.
Hey “Concerned Citizen” – Of just what country are you a citizen and where in the hell did you get THAT bullshit.
Not a word if truth in it.
Excellent response. Trump is so clueless about trade and its economic impact it is downright scary. Hey, Donald, you throw those tariffs on imported goods, what happens? Prices go up. Automation over the last 20 years is what has greatly reduced industrial and manufacturing jobs. Not free trade. Plus, Trump is a hypocrite and a liar. Many of his businesses have hired cheap foreign labor to build his hotels, look up the Polish brigade, and he manufacturers his clothes line overseas. Yet, his supporters look the other way and believe in his hollow slogan of making America great again. These two potential nominees will go down and the worst 2 candidates in history. We are facing voting for the lesser of two evils.
High taxes on manufacturing and retail has driven most of the companies out of the U.S. Trump understands business and can correct the imbalance.
Kate,
Automation is only a small part of the loss of manufacturing jobs in this country. The biggest contributor to the demise of manufacturing in this country has been the labor unions(which by and large support the democratic ticket). I have worked in the automotive industry as well as the steel industry. When the trade agreements went into affect companies ran for the borders to escape the unions and at the time (even though I lost my job because of it) I couldn’t blame them. The unions workflow model strangled many businesses in this country forcing them to raise there prices to accommodate unreasonable labor costs and in turn these companies could no longer compete in the world market once the trade agreements were signed so most moved off shore.
Kate: You are talking out of your A$$!! Trump the lesser of two evils?? Man are you a NWO Shill?? You want a politician who never gets anything done but to throw this country into a third world country, like the other canadiates where??
Well Kate if it is so easy why don’t YOU do it?
Hey Kate,
Just how many golf courses and hotels you own in foreign countries
You must trade with off shore companies too.
Isn’t it funny how these assbags bad rap Trump for doing business over seas and with over seas companies and then say he doesn’t know anything about foreign trade.
Typical commie tactic- talk out of both sides of their mouth.
jwb: Maybe you want Killary so she can get millions of more dollars for herself while giving favors to other countries and bring the USA to a third world country which is on it’s way but Killary will flush it down the toilet!! She is a agent for china by the way!! And Bill can have his own office working on the economy but getting BJ’s by Monica and his other mistresses!! That’s really presidential isn’t it JWB???
What doesn’t upset these rinos for crooked Hellary. Their money tree is close to getting trimmed. Mr. Trump rocks their corrupt world.
If the GOP couldn’t get the problem corrected when they had the power – they don’t have a quarrel when someone else has a solution. GOP BUTT OUT!
I agree the Establishment, “GOP MUST BUTT OUT”
Goooooooooooooo Trump, 2016&2020. No More of Oblowhard’s Hope and Change. Neither Killary’s.
The GOP elites need to get behind Trump and let him lead and we the people need to eleminate all Rhinos and such idiots as Obama, Clinton, Reid, Pelosi, and all who do not take their oath of office seriously
Ditto
I love his plan finally a common sense approach! People need to wake up and not let the establishment and the lib-tard looney left steal this election. Do not vote for that evil woman! Trump 2016!
may th best man win and that isn’t hillary it is trump so go trump go and be the next president of the united states of america and make america great again, please donald stay well and strong because without you donald trump america has nothing.
Trump may not be perfect, but who of us is…
He worked for his money with a lot of success and some failures along the way, all in the process of preparation.
Killery on the other hand amassed her fortune by corruption and deceit.
I choose the businessman over the thief. How about you?
Fat cats GOP can go to hell your days are numbered ! You bunch of SOB’s still
don’t get it do you. The Voters are through with your lies and the Democrats lies
we are backing another way in Mr Trump . So go ahead and get mad I don’t
care . Your a bunch of do nothing for the last 7.5 years. GOP Elites have spent
that tim kissing Obama’s ass on everything and we are tired of it.
Of course they are mad. All the big money that fills their pockets and buys them a seat in office will have to do what’s right. Keep jobs in America, pay a fair wage, and do business the right way not by pay to play. This is good for America because we will have more and better jobs and the taxes from these large companies that move their operations out so they don’t pay their fair share will come back or pay a tax like most countries charge us. We have to stop being stupid and do what’s right or become a third world country.
HOW TRUE IT IS.
Mostly they are pissed because they will have to show up for work more than half the time they do now just to keep up with Trump policies.
AMERICA needs to take care of AMERICA, First. Let the Global chips fall where they may. He is correct, in that we hardly ever find affordable products that are produced in America anymore. Americans need jobs, and the reason we don’t have them is that it is very expensive to produce anything here, due to ridiculous rulings from agencies that are not ever actually voted on by the people or the Congress. We need to abolish a LOT of those agencies, and get back to work again.
You are right Candice, If we can get Trump in, perhaps he can get rid of some of these agencies that suck up our
tax dollars. I say to them, ‘YOUR’RE FIRED” and let them go out and find a real job.
Perhaps it is time for some real change. That is to say change that will support America and the American worker. The leadership of the old Democrat party has been usurped by the socialist and does not represent the fundamental values of working Americans. The GOP elite are out of touch with their core constituents and their only concern is with getting elected. Then they do little if anything when they do get elected. If they don’t like Trumps idea then they need to present us with a better one.
How can anybody support this slimy piece of sh-t,Hillary?
YES !!! Someone willing to take charge and make it right !!!! Some people may not like him but they better wake up. With what we have had in office the past 8 years and Hillary will continue the same agenda…… Some say I’m just not going to vote,,,,,,,,Better reconsider that not voting attitude. If you don’t vote that’s just like voting for the other side altogether. Better vote the the American way of life….as it was founded by our founding fathers .
She is like a greased pig. Or should I say she is a greased pig. But that would give pigs a bad name.
The demoSCUM and rinos have a difficult time with anything that will affect what goes in their pockets legally and illegally.
Just another day of the 2 parties in 1 shafting Americans, so no surprise that common sense hurts those who rape America and of course won’t like nor help (unless forced too by serious threats) a candidate who knows how to run a business AND America is a huuugge business rather than raping it.
http://personalliberty.com/anonymous-lawmaker-reveals-how-your-congressman-really-feels/
ATTN: PAUL RYAN
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
DEAR MR RYAN
GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE AND START SUPPORTING TRUMP, SINCE TRUMP IS THE CHOICE OF THE PEOPLE, WHO AND WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO DEFEAT HIM AS PRESIDENT, I SUGGEST THAT YOU GET ON BOARD ON THE TRUMP TRAIN AND START SUPPORTING HIM ALONG WITH YOUR FRIENDS IN CONGRESS, BELIEVE ME, WHEN YOUR FRIENDS ARE ON THE BALLOT AGAIN, WE THE PEOPLE WILL BE DECIDING WHO WILL RETURN TO WASHINGTON. THE CORUPT MEMBERS WILL BE THE FIRST TO GO.BECAUSE OF YOU AND YOUR COLEAGUES WHO HAVE SUPPORTED OBAMA AND LET HIM GET AWAY WITH EVERYTHING HE WANTED IS WHY OUR COUNTRY IS IN THIS PREDICAMENT! I WAS TAUGHT THAT OUR GOVERMENT WAS ESTABISHED AS THE ‘EXCUTUIVE, LEGISTLATIVE AND THE JUDICIAL’ IT WAS MEANT TO BE AS CHECKED AND RECHECKED, YOU SIR AND YOUR FRIENDS ALLOW THIS MESS TO HAPPEN AND CONTINUE YOU TO HAPPEN! ….WHY! IS IT BECAUSE YOU AND THE MEMBERS WERE FEATHERING THEIR POCKETS AND THAT THERE IS SOMEONE WHO COMES ALONG AND WANTS IT TO END, YOU CHOOSE TO GO AGAINST ‘WE THE PEOPLE!’
in days gone by, many forms of communication used all caps. For some unknown reason, using all capitals on the internet is considered screaming. In this case, I BELIEVE IT IS NECESSARY AND JUSTIFIED.
The approach, which represents a significant break from years of Republican Party advocacy for unencumbered trade between nations, drew immediate condemnation from Democrats as well as GOP establishment leaders……WHY ARE THEY MAD????….
Its easy…they have sold out the American people by taking bribes and kickbacks to pass NATFA TPP and other trade agreements that clearly put the American worker at the back of the bus where the career politician adds more kickback and payoff money to their bloated bank accounts, real estate and other perks they have stolen from the American people
Trump is right again. We need to review and enforce all trade agreements. If they are not followed to the letter of the law we should consider them null and void and renegotiate.
Look on the 4th of July Flags sold in America
and see where they are made!! CHINA!! This stops with Trump!!
YES AN WHILE YOU ARE KICKING EVERYBODY OUT DONT FORGET THE BROKEN RECORD SENILE SENATOR D FIENSTIEN WITH HER POUND THE DRUM, SO CALLED ASSAULT WEAPON BAN, THIS IS A REAL NUT JOB, RIGHTLY SO FROM CA. YOU MUST REMEMBER THAT BEFORE A POLITICIAN DOES ANYTHING, THEY TELL THEMSELVES WHAT,S IN IT FOR ME. WHAT CAN I GET UNDER THE TABLE, WHO CAN I BRIBE, HOW DO I MAKE MYSELF LOOK GREAT? I HOPE TRUMP STEPS ON THE BACKS OF THESE SLIME BALLS WITH SPIKED BOOTS ON.
It is about that someone has started talking about American jobs and not protecting countries that want to cut our throats and bankrupt us or destroy our military ability to protect our country. Of course Omuslim and Killary have done a great job at doing that on their own. I am sick and tired of the Clinton news network(CNN) and all the others covering up Killary’s F–k ups such as killing our men in Benqasi , due to her and Omuslim’s political correctness
sKipfoss , I AGREE WITH YOU COMPLETLY ( CNN) Anna Navarro constantly talks dirt about TRUMP because JEB Bush slid off the edge and lost. HA! HA! POOR LOSER ! Hormones might have something to do with it. Thank you sKipfoss YOU SAID IT ALL IN ONE PARAGRAF! VOTE TRUMP!
Trump, for all his warts and moles, is right about the trade issues. Both the GOP elected to Congress as well as the Democrats do not have the best interests of the American people at heart. They are part of an aratocracy and they are only interested in getting reelected. Real wages haven’t risen in too many years. It it takes renegotiating the trade pacts in place so be it! Reduce corporate taxes such that it is an inducement for industry to return large amounts of money to the US and reinvest in manufacturing and create good paying jobs for Americans. Our borders need to be secured and let’s build a wall between the US and Mexico.
Perhaps it’s time for a woman, just not this woman. She is arguably the most corrupt candidate in history. Selling out the US. Is no problem for her.
I’m hoping the tide gets educated and shifts to Trump like the Brexit thing did. It may be just in time to keep Hillary from handing over this country to the UN.
Changing the NWO “System” of Chinese Slave Labor, International Corporate Profits, and Decimated American middle class will cause “disruptions”.
But Not One Chamberpot Repub favoring TPP/NAFTA/ ETC ever explains how an increasing US Poverty and Feral Gov. Dependency can continue to be “Viable”. These ProgreSSive Putzes of the DC Cabal (Chamberpots and DemocRats) have Bankrupted Our Country.
There will be No Easy Way Out.
This is great he doesn’t need the GOP establishment to agree with him. They are one of the problems we need to correct.
They have been siding along with the Demoncrats to long as it is. About half of them need to be replaced.
GO GET THE TRUMP
This post may not have anything to do with this article but is being included to inform people of how they are being used by the current Government Administration of Barack Obama supported by Hillary Clinton.
I think all people should read the item below and in particular if you are an Obama or Clinton supporter.
After you read this ask yourself if you are a Useful Idiot and are being manipulated by these people
who will lead you to your own destruction. If the answer is YES its not too late to change.
Beware the Useful Idiots
submitted by Garret Geer
Recall that Hillary did her college thesis on his writings and Obama writes about him in his books.
Saul Alinsky died about 43 years ago, but his writings influenced those in political control of our nation today.
Died: June 12, 1972, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Education: University of Chicago
Spouse: Irene Alinsky
Books: Rules for Radicals, Reveille for Radicals
Anyone out there think that this stuff isn’t happening today in the U.S.?
All eight rules are currently in play.
How to create a social state by Saul Alinsky:
There are eight levels of control that must be obtained before you are able to create a social state. The first is the most important.
1) Healthcare – Control healthcare and you control the people.
2) Poverty – Increase the Poverty level as high as possible; poor people are easier to control and will not fight back if you are providing everything for them to live.
3) Debt – Increase the debt to an unsustainable level. That way you are able to increase taxes, and this will produce more poverty.
4) Gun Control– Remove the ability to defend themselves from the government. That way you are able to create a police state.
5) Welfare – Take control of every aspect of their lives (Food, Housing, and Income).
6) Education – Take control of what people read and listen to – take control of what children learn in school.
7) Religion – Remove the belief in the God from the government and schools.
8) Class Warfare – Divide the people into the wealthy and the poor. This will cause more discontent, and it will be easier to take (tax) the wealthy with the support of the poor.
Does any of this sound like what is happening to the United States?
Alinsky merely simplified Vladimir Lenin’s original scheme for world conquest by communism, under Russian rule. Stalin described his converts as “Useful Idiots.”
The Useful Idiots have destroyed every nation in which they have seized power and control. It is presently happening at an alarming rate in the U.S.
“It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.”
Everyone who opposes Obama and Clinton should write to our Muslim Terrorist President and Attorney General on their respective websites and tell them it is time to stop protecting Hillary Clinton and indict her for the criminal she is. Enough of this cover up and stalling and subverting the laws of the land. Either obey your oaths or resign immediately.
Also, I would encourage everyone who is comfortable with doing so to purchase as many firearms and ammunition as they can afford to not only protect themselves from criminals and terrorists but from our Government as well. Buy yourself a semi automatic handgun and rifle at a minimum and get prepared to defend yourself.
I was reading you comment until I got to #7, your coment about removing God from schools and I can’t disagree with you more. What you do in you house is your business. Keep your children home, educate them the way you want, and make sure they only hear your opinion abouit everything.
great comment! Everyone should read. You nailed it brother!
I Agree abbottlic, dprato nailed it !
At least he has a plan. Has anyone else presented a better one?
Both Dems and Repubs have had multiple chances when they had control….and still our MESS has grown bigger with each administration…..time to try another way….go back to the basics of practical responsible decisions, hard work, OVERSITE, frugal spending, strong military, and strong bipartisan leadership aimed at providing opportunities for all Americans to meet their needs. STOP THE ECONOMIC SLAVERY of “give ’em prizes” so they will vote for us! Have we forgotten the American Way of rewarding the virtues of quality work and dependability? Let’s help all Americans to learn a profitable skill and then give them the opportunity to use their skills to help MAKE AMERICA A COUNTRY TO BE PROUD OF AGAIN! Then we can invite others to come to America and assimilate into our culture. PLEASE EVERYONE VOTE! This is a hard won privilege of our FREEDOM!
NAFTA was a loser for US industries in Furniture, Clothing and killed the Southern states jobs. Ross Perot said it would and it did.
We have handed US jobs to everyone except Americans. The American family cannot survive on the low income wages.
Not only our anger over these policies, the Chamber and GOP ignored the American worker.
As a former Chamber member, I left because of the policies I saw coming. Now, in our community the Chamber and many cities are paying to have jobs come. This is the damage they have done. Wake up America! Bring jobs back home.
Ross Perot warned us about NAFTA, not only did the United States lose jobs, so did Canada as well. NAFTA had to be made null & void by not only the United States, but also Canada as well. Donald Trump wants good decent paying jobs back in the United States, and the country needs them now. The mainstream Republicans need to get behind Donald Trump and support him all the way if they want the White House back. My vote is for Donald Trump in November. I want members of my family to have decent paying jobs in the future. My sons are for Donald Trump, so are my sibblings, nephews, nieces, nearly all of my neighbors are for Donald Trump. The very worst our
country can do is if it chooses Hitlery Killery ROTTON Ayatollah Khoemeni Clinton. TRUMP ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So far the GOP orthodoxy has not worked out too well for the country. The weak, one sided trade deals that benefit everyone but the United States have helped drag our economy down. Just because a trade agreement was negotiated and approved, does not mean that renegotiations should not be made. The TPP is a disaster. All advantages are given to foreign countries and foreign workers are increased. Any trade disagreements are to be dealt with by an international mediation committee, thus effectively striping us of our sovereignty. Where is the “fair deal” in Japan being able to import cars into America, but America can not import cars to Japan? And these “deals” are rife with this one sidedness that the champions of globalization tout..
She doesn’t know anything about the economic, she has to bring her husband to run it. What kind of leader is this ???? Really ..Hillary, you think there is nothing new in Benghazi report and should forget about it just move on ?? She doesn’t show any feelings toward 4 brave patriots, just glad it’s over and she doesn’t have to answer any more. If her daughter was killed by ISIS, would she say that ???? Get this, Ambassador Steven’s sister said she is not blaming for Hillary + Obama, its’ Congress fault and should not be used in presidential 2016. Of course, if you are Democrat, you can say that so sad !!!!
Trump is fighting two machines. The DEMS and the REPUBS. This will not be easy. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Trump is going for the voters,to hell with the machines. He is as angry as the voters. America has changed from under him and the rest of us and he is telling us so. I hope enough people listen to how things can change back to support the people. This will be tough. Buena suerte.
The elete of both parties only want to keep getting kickbacks from forieghn countrys We have enough. Young people better open their eyes The elete of both parties don’t give a damn about all of except getting you to believe these pie in the sky schemes to get your votes.Believe me I know, I am 71 years and been pollitcal since I was old enough to vote.We were democrats but I realized that that the dem. showed me and some like me when they killed the best democrat pres.John F Kennedy. I have been a republican ever since. They aren’t much better but they try harder.All I want to tell the younger and and people of every color I was raised by a Lady of color and grew up with her children and learned more from Her than any other I have ever knowm.I just want her legacy will carry on by her children and grand children
It’s about time. Let the Greed bag Republicans and Democrats cry about losing their millions of dollars from foreign companies that should be going to the hard working freedom loving American middle class. Go TRUMP!
Build the pipeline, frack and drill more oil and stop importing oil from the middle east. THEY ARE OUR ENIMIES! THEY WANT US DEAD. any terrorist caught in the USA will not be sent to prison. THEY WILL BE DROPPED FROM A PLAIN OVER MECCA (NO PARACHUTE) SO THEY CAN SEE THEIR 72 VIRGINS (WHO ARE ALL MALES)
Clinton wants to spread fear among the American people. She follows the old adage “make them fear you and they will follow”. That they must vote for her or fear what her opponent might due. The simple truth is that she will what she pleases (as always), and the American middle class will pay the price. Most of us would not think of doing what she has done regarding American security (her own server), or accepting foreign contributions. She is not a very wise person and her jusgement on these important matters is very poor.
Trump is right.we have seen the betrayal of America in these trade deals and the corruption that has weakend are country. Obama the Clintions,Bush do not work for the American people their loyalties are to the EU! And UN and global cabal run by commies. We are being destroyed from within. This is why they will continue to create laws that favor our enemy’s. In favor of big brother and global elities control to oppress our great country. Its time for us to wake up. Britain did it. Brexit. Obama announced he would not break from his role in keeping the US under the hammer of world government in his dream of socialist utopia. Its time to dismantal the sock puppets that have a hold on us. Its time to restore our country in the hands of the people. To restore our country to greatness again. We should rally to Trump he is our hope to turn things around. Denounceing Obama’s lead from behind lunacy. Its time for us to unite and do this together. Depart from Hillarys lies ,corruption and feminist facistisum that will lose ground for women. As Obama’s policy damages progress made by blacks. Creating more division. America is in a unique place and time. Time to step up and become the great country we are destined to be again.
All of you Trumpers are so full of crap!
usally what you say about other people is true of yourself. Useful idiots are incapable of truth. You should be great full you live in a country where your views are tolerated. Even if you are ignorant to realise there’s something terribly wrong with this government.
ANYONE IS BETTER THAN THE RAG BAG HAG
Why do you day that? Do you have an educated reason or are you listening to main stream media.
Rattler Are you saying you are a snake? Go back under your rock and wait for your next strike if you are lucky it won’t be issis to chop your head off ! isn’t that what they do to snakes? VOTE TRUMP MAKE US GREAT AGAIN even the snakes.
Rattler, you must want that damned POS white trash [email protected]&CH Hitlery Killery ROTTON Ayatollah Khoemeni Clinton in the White
House, I also take it that you don’t want the country to have decent paying jobs, just garbage, low paying, nothing jobs which is what that damned POS white trash [email protected]&CH Hitlery Killery ROTTON Ayatollah Khoemeni Clinton wants. I also notice that you want to be poor, and want the complete elimination of the Working Class, the Working Poor which in turn will eliminate the Middle
Class. Donald Trump wants decent paying jobs back in the United States, Hitlery Killery ROTTON Ayatollah Khoemeni Clinton
does not.
Well it sounds like more of you are seeing a lot of truth and willing to consider Trump,I’m retired will be 79 9n Aug ,have encoutered the cost of my medications and co pays rising very steadally in the last 4 years since I retired in 2012,seen our savings drop considerably in the last 2 years.I knew from the first I was going to vote for Trump,never waviered from that decision,mainly because he is not a career politician and he has succeeded in his business endeavers ,with a few bankruptcies ,but years ago back in the late 60’s I filed one also .so it doesn’t make you a bad guy,I’m praying that he will win this election ,if he doesn’t our country will be lost forever .I want to see this country flourish again and the poeple making a living instead of the money going into our politicians pockets and those special interests groups.
Trump a man with a Brain
NAFTA sucks and is an outrage
there are no longer any jobs that pay a fair wage in the USA
He understands the problem he sympathizes with people like me who used to earn over $100 an hour and now thanks to Ovomit are lucky to work at $40 with no hours over 40 Obama is a POS as is Hitlery.
GO DONALD TRUMP save America
Whether you are a Christian or not , Donald Trump is God’s man for this hour, people!! First of all ,look at all the opposition he has! In all my years ,I have never seen a candidate be so hated for telling the truth than him!The reason why every politician (GOP & Dem.) are against him is because he is shining light in all of the dark ,little corners where they have manipulated deal ,after deal to sell this country out from un der us …The People! Hey, news flash! The gravy train is coming to a halt and all of you who have made millions off of taxpayers backs are going to have to “rough it” by trying to survive on what your true salaries are!!! Welcome to the jungle. You people(GOP’s &DEMS>) won’t be able to lower your standard of living; like all of us have had to do over the years!!!! You won’t survive out here in the real world! Don’t even think for a minute about taking our guns….that’s just not going to happen!!!The limos, the pre-paid vacations and dinners , vacation homes, mansions….it’s over! We ,as the American people are not going to take it anymore…so pack up your stuff and get ready to hit the bricks, because if you’re not supporting Donald Trump for president, the only way you’re going to get in the White House is on a tour! Just like the rest of us! The Lord’s wrath has caught up to you and all your evil practices are coming to an abrupt halt! If you don’t know the Lord, then there’s a place for you too! Sorry about your luck without JESUS!!!!!!!
If we want more factories in America we have to make it more expensive to import competing goods. Tariffs increase the cost of imports so locally produced goods will have more of a chance of competing with them. The government pockets the tariffs and can use them to help reduce government debt.
The story was correct in pointing out that automation has reduced the need for as many factory workers. But, that automated machinery has to be built by someone, transported, installed and maintained. Automation may have reduced the need for assembly line workers but it has increased job opportunities related to the automated equipment.
At the least these trade deals need to be reviewed once a decade to see how they are affecting us. They may need to be fine tuned to meet the needs of a changing world.
The best way to control the elite in both party’s is to vote out their mouth piece. Vote out every Congressperson that comes up for reelection and RYAN immediately with out question.
Every crooked politician against Trump tearing up our unfair trade laws is most likely getting paid with funny money from these offshore corporations. It is about time a candidate started looking after this country and it’s hard working tax paying citizens rather than non tax paying corporations greasing the hands of our corrupt elected officials.
We the people in America need a newspaper where the voter can research the grass root of the politicians we are going to vote for we cannot affort another Obomit to run the country nor another Paul Rayan. Trump 2016
Again the Republican’s & Democrats are going off the deep end and saying Trump is crazy. But as through all this the politicians are not listening to the American people. The reason Trump is going strong is that he is standing up to all the politicians – and the politicians are just worried about loosing all their money & ‘favors’. Money from lobbyist, other politicians from foreign countries, etc.. Every politician has lined their bank account from ‘doing favors’ to monies from lobbyist etc.. Every person in America is sick and tired of politicians as they basically lie out of both sides of their mouths. Why can not the politicians start learning that Americans are over all the crap every political person is doing.
Government needs a huge overhaul – and fast. America is in heart failure with no chance of recovery at this point.
Republicans Suck, I with Trump
Where is another Reagan when you need him…..
“Under Trump’s trade plans, we would see higher prices, fewer jobs, a weaker economy,” Uhhh, no. People will still want to buy soap, Tractor Trailers, Air Conditions.. that are now made in Mexico with Mexican Wage Slaves.. the worst that would happen is we would have more jobs in America and corporations might have to raise prices incrementally.
That is disruptive, not a blow to consumption.
Some stock prices would change no doubt, but stock prices don’t determine Home Building rates.. which need air conditioners.
Meanwhile, the Middle class falling stops, the middle class that is responsible for consumption.
To believe this were not the case one would have to believe the middle class doesn’t exist as an indicator of what happens when Exports have slowed 50% from highs in the late 70’s.
One can see the elites hate Trump, but this does not take away the hold the Elites have on commerce.. just the way the commerce is completed.
i really think that the gop should stand behind donald trump because in the end donal is going to win anyway, they know that he will do the right thing for america but, they don’t want anything to do with that, all they want is for america to stay the way it is now so that they can keep getting richer and richer and the american people poorer and poorer they don’t give a hoot about any of us and they all are so afraid of trump spilling the beans on them all that they will stop at nothing no matter how much money it would cost to get trump out, they have plenty of money and they didn’t get it honestly they got it by srewing the working class american people, this has to stop once and for all and it will when mr donald trump is in office and he will be the next president of the united states of america and make it great again so, like i always say go trump go and win and also stay well and strong because america needs donald trump so bad and has needed him for years so stay healthy and strong donald because without you mr trump america has nothing god bless america we are finally on the right track so lets keep on it.
Trump is the everlasting light and the savior of the USA. Lift up your candles to praise the lyin’ Donnie, We will call you President Trump and we will be your humble servants ……………..let us be as one.
This comment is off the golden path (VOTE TRUMP) When I took a trip to Mexico to Get through the Mexican border I was asked for my birth certificate Well I did not take it with me ! BUTT when I was told a $20.00 Bill would take care of it I paid it and was told to have a nice trip! If we charged every alien $20.00 to get back in to their country It would help us build that wall we so much need. Eleven million x $20.00 each. WOW adds up! This is the way our country and people are used They are Laughing at us and think we are stupid all over the world. Think again when you are told to open your arms and embrace the ones that are taking us down. Hillary says that at her rallies she is weak and cannot do the job she is trying to get! and no this is not a sermon.
Trump is right again!
Though supposedly formed to regulate and facilitate trade between the 12 nations, the TPP Commission will be granted power and authority that is almost unbelievable. Here are just a few of the things that the TPP will have dictatorial power over: immigration, wealth redistribution, education, human rights, gay rights, same-sex marriage, gun control, health care, women’s reproductive rights, abortion, sustainable development, pollution, wildlife and wetlands, and the authority to give foreign nations complete access to American markets. It will be able to punish nations with multi-billion dollar fines and punish individuals who organize boycotts against products. It is also going to make it illegal to mark a product as “Made in the USA.”
Even though I am too young to vote, my mom is voting for Trump and we are New Yorkers. We see what Muslims and illegals do firsthand everyday. Clinton will screw this country over if she is elected.
Wow, that pretty stiff rhetoric. Not all of these folks are bad, and don’t deserve to be grouped into Trump’s hate mongering. All the “I’M GONNA DO” speeches he gives are just sick. If trump takes the job, he better get it right. If not, his 4 years will turn into an impeachment. He has a lot to live up to and I don’t see it happening …………….best of luck
I know for a fact that these so called trade deals our government has made are nothing more or less than destructive to our economy. At one time the company I worked for had to haul JUNK to the harbor for export to Japan and China, among other places. I mean JUNK! In order to keep a contract to haul pipe. One day with some time to kill in the harbor we went to a place called the bull pen. It was full of toasters, cameras, radios, all kinds of stuff like that to be shipped over seas and reverse engineered in order to send the junk back to us. It was absolutely disgusting to see what was being done even back then, a number of years ago. It’s no doubt worse now. Our government had better get it’s act together and start acting as though the United States of America is a sovereign nation for a change instead of some Mickey Mouse banana republic. I think Trump will do just that if given a chance. But we have those unmitigated asses, Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney and no telling how many others who simply don’t want to act anything like patriotic people, and don’t give a damn about their country or the people who belong in it.
Our politicians have been screwing us for years so they can fatten their wallets. We need a change in this country Trump is right.
The republican party has lost the last 2 presidential elections and they don’t understand why yet they are furious that Trump has taken a different path than the tired old party platform that no one wants, except the establishment, I guess that no one told them that doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity.
To those who say, how can you vote for Trump he’s a liar and a crook, I look at it this way. You can either vote for the liar and crook who only serves globalists, and doesn’t care about America at all. Or you can vote for the liar and crook who loves America and would like to save her. Neither is perfect, but only one wants to SAVE America. When all the globalist puppets on the left AND the right hate you, are definitely doing something right.
You are right
May I suggest that you should read a book called “the crash of 2016”. The economic and political position that America is in today was predicted to occur by some of your founding fathers. Your situation is not unlike most other countries in that over the last 20 years the rich have become much richer and the poor have become destitute and homeless.Unless the American voters change their voting habits and start to elect either independants or reformists,then your standard of living will continue to drop and all you will have left is the capacity to keep complaining and your willingness to accept whatever your politicians and upperclass decide you are worth.
Too many republicans have forgotten what it means to stand up on two feet and believe in the ideals of America and what made the country great. Trump will help them and show them the way. Too many gutless republican congressmen that have forgotten their way.
Trump is right on jobs and trade, though I thought his particular proposals weakened his argument. I have written three articles so far on the Presidential race. Part 1 talks about jobs and trade. Maybe I can paste it here.
The Most Important Issues of the 2016 Presidential Race (Part 1)
In the Presidential race this year, what do you think are the most important issues? I can think of a lot of very important issues, but there are some issues that I call the iceberg sinking the ship. If the ship sinks, nothing else is going to matter.
And, yes, the ship is sinking.
The first issue of that of jobs. And when I say ‘first,’ I am not ranking these issues as to the order of their importance. If a ship is sinking, you need to fix all the holes. Some holes will sink the ship faster than the others, but any one of them will sink the ship.
When there are not enough good paying jobs for everybody, it drives people to depend on the government for financial assistance. For many people who either don’t understand the concept of freedom or who do understand but want to change the fundamental nature of our country, government dependency is a good thing. They call it compassion and a safety net, but the result of this and the intent of many of these people is to increase the role of government in the lives of everybody.
So why would they want to do that, and why would that be a bad thing? Throughout history, there have been essentially only two forms of government: tyranny and freedom. Most governments throughout history have been tyrannies. Life isn’t necessarily miserable under a ruler, but there are restraints on the things a person can do and obligations that not everyone will like. But then that’s the case everywhere, right? But we forget that our nation fought a war to get the kind of government and the freedoms that we have, or at least the freedoms that may now only still exist on paper.
When we think of tyrannies, we usually think of kings or dictators where one person basically rules the country, and this often happens with a violent takeover; but freedom can be lost piece by piece as people gradually trade freedoms for security, prosperity for a safety net, and responsibility for dependency.
When you have a massive government with an ever increasing number of rules and laws, the will and the power to force compliance on more and more things that were not issues in the past, when the government believes it is responsible for the economy and is responsible for solving all the problems of society, then your government is going from freedom to tyranny. With the rise of the United States, these two forms of government exist less as absolutes, but countries are seeing a wide range of degrees of freedom and tyranny.
Our nation is moving slowly from freedom to tyranny. Instead of being ruled by the King of England, we are being ruled more and more by government officials who on the surface want to protect us from ourselves and the evil around us, but who are motivated just as much by the power and the money that comes with their position.
The issue of jobs is possibly the single most important factor in preserving our freedoms, because when a person can no longer provide for oneself or one’s family, they cry out for somebody to take care of them. Our churches used to be the primary source of public charity in our country, but the government has now taken over that role. This causes the government to grow, requiring more of your money and expanding the government’s reach into every area of your life. The loss of jobs reduces revenues to the government while at the same time creates pressure on the government to grow, assume more responsibility, increase governmental spending, and consequently government debt.
The government has now become responsible for the welfare of the people. The government is now the protector and provider of the people. The government has assumed responsibility for, and consequently the control of, the economy.
So the economy is basically about freedom, but according to Forbes , more than half the people in our country now receive some form of government aid. So even though people vote for their representatives, the way they vote is usually determined by who will best take care of them. And many voting districts have been drawn in ways that almost ensure the reelection of the people already in office.
When this happens slowly and each new generation is not taught what freedom is all about and each new generation gets used to the increasing role of government in their lives, freedom is traded for rulers who are now looked upon as our benefactors.
The loss of good jobs has also been a large factor in the deterioration of our families and as a result the moral deterioration of our country. Those who do work work more jobs and more hours to try to provide for their families and more and more parenting is done by day cares, and raising children becomes a lot like having pets. Feed them twice a day, and see that they don’t soil up the house. The lack of good jobs takes parents out of the homes and children are raised too often by people who have little or no vested interest in their lives.
Broken families lead to more crime, but it also contributes to the moral breakdown of our country. What I mean by moral breakdown is that there are a lot of things that are wrong but not illegal. All kinds of corruption, mean-spiritedness, unkindness, abuse, exploitation, indifference, negligence, selfishness, hatred, anger, things that laws either don’t touch or can’t fix, come from the breakdown of the family. Bringing American jobs back to our country will do more than probably any other one thing to help our country economically, but also in strengthening our country morally.
So why did we lose all these jobs? Labor has almost always been cheaper overseas, but the jobs didn’t leave to get cheaper labor. Our corporate taxes are among if not the highest in the world, but the jobs didn’t leave because of high corporate taxes. Corporate tax rates were raised to help make up for all the money the government no longer was getting from working people. We are told that we must lower our corporate tax rates to bring jobs back to our country, but if that isn’t why they left, it won’t make much difference in bringing them back.
The jobs left as we stopped taxing imports.
We have forgotten that taxes on imports paid for almost our entire federal budget for most of our nation’s history. There was no federal income tax before 1913.
We are told that taxing imports will raise the prices that consumers pay for those goods. But if we remember that these taxes are paid to the government, we can and should expect our government to lower our income taxes.
We are told that Herbert Hoover raised taxes on imports as the Great Depression was just starting, and that was responsible for prolonging and intensifying it. But the Great Depression lasted for another eight years or so under Franklin Delano Roosevelt who raised all kinds of taxes and created all kinds of government programs, and nobody thinks that had anything to do with prolonging the Depression?
Without taxes on imports, the jobs will stay overseas.
We are told that taxing imports will start trade wars, where other nations will tax the goods we send to them, thus hurting our export industry. This has been the cry of those who don’t mind having so many of our companies overseas. They talk about all the wonderful export opportunities. But this wasn’t an issue for the 140 years before we had an income tax, and this wasn’t an issue before we stopped taxing imports and sent our jobs overseas
We are told that taxing imports will raise the prices of everything we are still bringing into our country. Yes, and we didn’t need an income tax prior to 1916 when we used to do that. If the government wouldn’t take so much of our money, our income would go up without even getting a raise. Is that just a simple trade off, exchanging higher prices for income taxes? Not quite. If more people have jobs, the decrease in income tax rates would far exceed the added cost for consumer goods. That was how our nation’s wealth was built in the first place.
We are told that the world now has a global economy, that we have to support a global economy, and that to resist it is economic suicide. By a global economy, they mean simply free trade, no taxes on imported goods. They use words like protectionism and nationalism to describe those who oppose this, as though we are supposed to understand these words as obvious proofs of these people’s folly.
We are told in so many words that putting the needs and interests of our own nation over that of other nations is somehow selfish, arrogant, and benefits us at the expense of other nations, like there is only so much wealth in the world and if we get more, somebody else will have less. They are forgetting that wealth is created, by manufacturing, mining, agriculture, and fishing. They don’t need our companies in their countries for them to gain wealth.
We are talking about our companies making our products to send back to us. If these same countries would make these same products for their own country, they would prosper as well. Why are these other countries depending on our companies making our goods over there for their prosperity? Foreign goods were always available in our country, and we always paid a premium for them. But these were foreign products, like Swiss chocolate and German watches, not American companies making things somewhere else and then shipping those products back here.
Our political leaders have forgotten our Constitution, which our Founders fought a war in order to be able to establish it. Our government exists to promote the general welfare of the people of the United States. It’s like when parents give everything they have to their children. That doesn’t mean that they hate or don’t care about the other children on the block. But they can only be responsible for those that belong to them over whom they have some control or major influence. We cannot control the events, the people, and the governments of other countries, so frankly they have to take care of themselves, except perhaps in the case of a major natural disaster.
Bangladesh has 156 million people. So if we didn’t make our shirts there, we would be hurting their economy? They can’t support a thriving clothing industry with a market that large. When we made all of our own stuff here, we had jobs for everybody, and they were good paying jobs as well. And that wouldn’t work anywhere else?
We are told that globalization is good for everybody because everything is now cheaper. What they are not telling us is that, with globalization, everybody is making a lot less money too as a global labor market keeps driving wages downward. A global economy is like adding 3 billion people to the labor force. There are always people who will work for less somewhere in the world, and wages go down everywhere else to try to compete with that.
Rich nations become poorer, and poor nations stay poor. They’re not starting their own businesses; they’re just relying on ours.
And, besides, it is a very dangerous policy to build or base an economy on exports. That means that our prosperity depends first on the prosperity of other nations so that they can buy our goods. Basing our economic health on a global economy ties the economic health of all the nations together such that a problem in one country affects all the others. What this does is create a new normal of a sluggish world economy. Some major country is always experiencing some kind of downturn or economic crisis.
This ideal world of free trade also requires everybody to ‘play fair,’ nobody gaming the system by manipulating their currencies. So the experts want to build a global economic system that requires nobody cheating for it to really work? Seriously? You want to build a system that every nation in the world is dependent on but that requires everybody to follow all the rules? Quite frankly, I think the motivation behind this is resentment for the United States being so prosperous. At least it used to be. Before the jobs went overseas, our federal debt was minimal. Now it is almost 20 trillion dollars and counting. And, yes, the two are related, and we won’t fix the one without fixing the other.
How can we have a robust American economy when it is dependent on nations all over the world having the money to buy our stuff first? We have 330 million people in our own country. If that is not enough of a market for a company to prosper, please don’t blame our trade policies.
Before the jobs went overseas, we had plenty of jobs for everyone, good paying jobs, and our nation prospered. Taxes on imports went away, and the jobs went away, government debt skyrocketed, and wages stagnated. Between this and all the immigration, legal and otherwise, we have record numbers of people on government assistance, which ends up lowering the standard of living of everyone through government borrowing, inflation, and higher taxes.
When we made all of our own stuff, the jobs grew as the population grew. Now we don’t have enough jobs for all the people who are living in our country, yet at the same time the government keeps bringing millions more people into our country as well as allowing untold numbers of people to just come in however they can.
So how do we bring the jobs back to our country? Corporate tax rates are too high. But they are high only to make up for all the loss of revenue from the loss of jobs. The jobs didn’t leave because tax rates were too high, though more have left since they were raised. The jobs didn’t leave because labor was cheaper somewhere else. Labor has always been cheaper somewhere else.
The jobs left because we stopped taxing imports. And they will not come back until we do that again. So the Presidential candidates all talk about this issue in various ways, but this issue needs to have a national debate and to reach some kind of consensus. The reason is that moving a company from one country to another is a major decision that can involve billions of dollars. If one President instituted a policy which the next President would want to reverse or change, companies could be slow in doing anything differently because the cost of changing could outweigh the cost of staying put.
Right now most opinions you will hear on this matter support free trade. Much of that I believe is due to do politically correct thinking that views taxing imports as the work of greedy American companies who want to charge high prices free from the challenges of competition or the outdated notion of putting American interests above that of other countries.
Taxing imports again is the most important means for bringing jobs back to the United States, and frankly there is only one candidate right now who has favored that. That would be Trump. I believe both Clinton and Sanders are against this latest trade deal in the Pacific region because of the potential loss of jobs, but I don’t think they have said much about how they would bring back the jobs that have already left.
See my blog poligion1.blogspot.com for the other articles.
Lots of nice points, neither candidates are worth your time, need to start over on both sides. The presidency has become a joke and I hope in 4 years we can get back to a president that would be respectable………..
Your argument does not work for retirees on fixed income. If pricing go up they go hungry.
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Hillary will Kill us all…. (If she is elected…?)
The only reason the GOP is upset with what Trump said is because the people that BOUGHT them (Crony Capitalists) are upset.
I will stay on Donald Trumps side to Make America Great Again.
“But the speech drew a quick and scathing response from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a traditional Republican ally and leading business lobby.”
I’m a retiree and a comparison shopper. I see items side by side and it seems that overall the chinese products are more expensive than “Made in the USA” products.
I know that we have problems with the factory farms, however, I feel better taking a chance with their product than some of the horror stories I’ve heard coming out of china.
Mr Trump,,may God watch over you,,and may your limosine be a Abrams tank, as the hornets nest of these demonic bastards that have been shacken, will not stop at anything to harm you,,and may your secret service detail be only people that you personnaly know and never, but never ride in a open car .
I do not trust the majority of the members of Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, to do what’s best for our country and its people. I’m looking forward for someone like Donald Trump to come in and shake things up,and if necessary, make any changes to take our country back. I really can’t believe that so many of citizens or so blind to the fact that freedoms in this country will be a thing of the past if we don’t wake up.