re: Breaking: China offers a way to eliminate US trade imbalance. HAIL TRUMP!

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not free trade

that's like, the definition of not being free trade

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Right, which is why allowing our trading partners to use tariffs and protectionism to exacerbate massive trade deficits with us is stupid, and hurts Americans. It's also why folks like IB shouldn't oppose using the same device our so called friends use, to reduce those massive deficits, and open up foreign markets for American goods.

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yeah with our military spending. not our trade

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That too, but also our trade. We allow our trading partners to bottleneck our goods to them, while they expect an open market here.

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we're either 1 or 2 (depending on how you define it) in the world. how is our manufacturing "destroyed" when it's so massive?

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Because it is becoming much more assembling, than manufacturing. We assemble crap that is manufactured elsewhere, for the most part. If we don't do something about it, that will go away in time as well. Does anyone really think that being dependent upon the outside world for nearly everything is a sound future for our kids? Do you know what happens to the queen bee, when the drones abandon her?