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Yeah it's a big frigging mess

artappraiser — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 00:58:40 +0000

Yeah it's a big frigging mess because everything is really on hold. Depends on reading the tea leaves of today's tweet. Nobody in U.S. business can plan anything, nobody can game anything for or agin whatever, they don't know what the game will be. (Just like with health insurance)

It's: U.S.A. #69! If not dead last.

Cut the special interest

artappraiser — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 00:52:03 +0000

In reply to I know you're lined up

Cut the special interest group crap, you know it, everyone else knows it: it's just that you are atypical. Loud and proud.

I know you're lined up

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 22:45:29 +0000

In reply to Oh I see. Same article,

I know you're lined up against me. Southern prejudice. Anti-coastal too.

Oh I see. Same article,

ocean-kat — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 21:53:11 +0000

In reply to Oh, she jsut posted it after

Oh I see. Same article, different posters, and you lacked the courage to see which poster would get the most comments.

Oh, she jsut posted it after

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 21:35:00 +0000

In reply to I was thinking of putting

Oh, she jsut posted it after I posted mine to be a "me too" piece, but before you could post a "me three" I deleted mine, so now she's out there owning it as a "me one", and why should wwe discuss trade anyway since we all know it kills jobs and we'd be better off without it like in the good ol days when we dint feel the need to trade with anyone except a few trinkets to steal Manhattan plus som furs along the St Lawrence/upper Mississippi. #BadNATONoBischottiForYou

I was thinking of putting

ocean-kat — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 21:26:36 +0000

In reply to Trump’s Trade Pullout Roils Rural America

I was thinking of putting this article 'In the news" but I tend to procrastinate. I appreciate that you are so active on this front. Among Trump voters and Sander's voters there is little understanding of the complexity of trade deals. There's this idea that simply eliminating all the trade deals will Make America Great Again. Even many on the far left think this, they just wouldn't say MAGA. But there are always winners and losers. It's not just the TPP. I've seen similar articles about NAFTA and the damage withdrawal would do to corn exports to Mexico. And even the damage from a roll back of Obama's loosening of restrictions with Cuba and grain exports. Then there is the damage that withdrawal and the subsequent trade wars will do to everyone when most consumer goods cost much more. There's a problem with loss of good paying jobs that needs to be addressed but the solution isn't to withdraw from all free trade agreements.

Industries Are Left in the

artappraiser — Mon, 07 Aug 2017 20:51:14 +0000

In reply to Trump’s Trade Pullout Roils Rural America

Industries Are Left in the Lurch by Trump’s Stalled Trade Plans

Since withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership pact in January, President Trump has accomplished little else of significance when it comes to reorienting deals with other countries.

By Alan Rappeport @ NYTimes.com, Aug. 7

WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump promised Americans that they would be exhausted from “winning” on trade under his presidency. But nearly seven months after Mr. Trump took office, the industries he vowed to protect have become tired of something else: waiting.

After beginning his presidency with a bang by withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership pact in January, Mr. Trump has accomplished little else of significance when it comes to reorienting deals with other countries. Instead, his administration has been struggling to work through the complicated rules that dictate international commerce. All the while, they are learning that bold campaign promises are hard to keep when many voices advocate different plans.

For many businesses that had raised their hopes, frustration is mounting by the day.

America’s steelworkers are on edge [....]