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Question

Tariffs

Mar 8, 2018 8:43PM PST

I don't know how this will play out but if the net is more job loses than gains the dems will be besides themselves with glee.

What a great talking point during an election cycle.

I suspect the repubs want no part of this and want to squash it now.

The child seems to have made up his mind to go with this tariff stuff.

So now we have his action and we wait to see the reaction.

I hope this does not spiral out of control.

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Still waiting to hear about a rubber band tariff.
Mar 9, 2018 9:13AM PST

Of course all that is a bit stretchy.

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How would this solution work?
Mar 9, 2018 11:28AM PST

We send a bunch of our people to the countries from which we purchase cheap products and organize their labor force into unions. We encourage them to strike against their greedy factory bosses until their wages and benefits allow them to have a lifestyle on par with workers in our country. Of course this will mean that prices for good will rise in these countries as well but we'd no longer get to complain about how poorly workers are treated there. Everyone earns the same and everyone pays the same. Sound good?

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The liberal Senator Elizabeth Warren
Mar 12, 2018 12:02AM PDT

came out with tacit approval of a more surgical approach. In fact, with more of the famous Trump issue-pullback, the two are getting closer. She would look at more industries. Both ways, and free trade, have been used through history, with varying success.
I hate to pressure them, but Kees and Dafydd are in countries with tariff histories that are centuries old. Both of them are European, so they're more educated than we are. Wouldn't mind seeing their perspective.
The Corn Laws I referenced earlier even show up in the plots of English fiction.

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Really?????
Mar 12, 2018 9:57AM PDT

"Both of them are European, so they're more educated than we are."

EU, open borders, bailouts, etc.????? Yep.....that education hasn't taught them a damn thing, has it?

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(NT) They have JWs there, too.
Mar 12, 2018 10:13AM PDT
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Their schoolchidren, whom I have taught,
Mar 12, 2018 1:43PM PDT

know more history than most American adults.

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KNOWING it
Mar 12, 2018 1:48PM PDT

and actually LEARNING from it are two different things......what YOU consider to be adults here now are actually millennia snowflakes who never were TAUGHT history because it wasn't in the liberal agenda for them to really KNOW the TRUTH......what they learned and are still learning is revisionist history that makes liberals look good, and it's all lies.....but if you tell the lie and teach the lie often enough you end up with idiots who actually believe them.

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RE:snowflakes who never were TAUGHT
Mar 12, 2018 2:20PM PDT

TAUGHT?

Programmed?

Kim Jung UN?

All snowflakes/potential snowflakes, from ages 3 to 5, form up over here and go to THIS school, everyone else form up over here?

Over here? At Trump University?

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(NT) "whom I have taught..."
Mar 12, 2018 4:42PM PDT