No you don’t. I’m upper class. Most people like me don’t want the middle class to do better because that means profit sharing.You sound bitterGlobalism had many supporters during and shortly after the Cold WarGeorge HW Bush was a globalist....so his son was a globalist. Trump is the first president in the last 30 years not to sell us out to foreigners.Many republican swamp creatures were globalists in the 1990s and still are todayI think it is so strange that you Republicans today are basically saying what us liberals were saying in the 2000's
This was written by Thom Hartmann in 2004 when Republicans loved shipping jobs overseas and not tariffing companies who left for cheaper labor and taxes and then ship their shit back to here? It's about time:
When conservatives rail in the media of the dangers of "returning to Smoot Hawley, which created the Great Depression," all they do is reveal their ignorance of economics and history. The Smoot-Hawley tariff legislation, which increased taxes on some imported goods by a third to two-thirds to protect American industries, was signed into law on June 17, 1930, well into the Great Depression. In the following two years, international trade dropped from 6 percent of GNP to roughly 2 percent of GNP (between 1930 and 1932), but most of that was the result of the depression going worldwide, not Smoot-Hawley. The main result of Smoot-Hawley was that American businesses now had strong financial incentives to do business with other American companies, rather than bring in products made with cheaper foreign labor: Americans started trading with other Americans.
Democracy - Not "The Free Market" - Will Save America's Middle Class
So Republicans claimed the tariffs caused the Great Recession. Now you have a different opinion? Boy you'll go along with whatever Trump says. If he's against it today, so will you be. But if the flip flops so will you.
I was listening to NPR or CSPAN the other day and they had a bush family economic advisor
He tried to explain why our trade deficit with china is a good thing
and the first reason he gave was that it pulled many CHINESE out of poverty
what?
thats bleeding heart liberal insanity masquerading as a conservative
Which means on most subjects its impossible to throw rocks at one party without hitting the other
smart people in some ways but not smart enough
the gap between America and the rest of the world was so great the globalists thought anything was possible
but they were wrong and America has suffered for their mistakes
America hasn't suffered. Just ask the rich people in America. Now the middle class has suffered yes but the rich who are actually the people who really matter, the job creators, are doing fucking great. What are you talking about?
The rich don't care about America. Corporations only care about profits. So if they can do the work in Mexico for less, they're going to. They don't care about the middle class or this country. Especially the ones who are global. Do you think Pepsi or Ford cares about American workers?
I want every American citizen to do well
And better trade policies will help to accomplish that
personally I’m a republican. I got a big raise in 2015. Did I ask that my coworkers share my raise? Nope. I earned it.
a true union liberal would want my co workers to share my raise. Fuck everyone else