Free Trade Is Destroying Our Economy

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[Rustyshackleford08]

Dude you have to understand that the government in the US is run by banks, oil companies and British Oligarchy. It will take a revolution for a change but thats not going to happen, people are useless for the most part. Too much tv, propaganda, and traitors.

[Rustyshackleford08]

@joelhowells

The banks, city of London banks, Rothschild..etc My government just gave 30 billion dollars to help bail them out a few weeks ago.

[Salvysahagun]

This is hilarious. Where is Europe now? ahahahha

what an idiot!

[SuperSelfreliance]

you are the most irrational person.Ayn Rand believed strongly in a government structure that had certain ground rules in mind.That is the basic rules that are derived from individual rights the right to life,freedom and ownership of one's own property.Now capitalism fundamentally is a economic system but it's corollary is a political system.A political and economic system are very much connected by the law of causality.

[AroundSun]

Nice title! It is amazing to hear that Free Trade is destroying our economy when it doesn't exist. NAFTA isn't free trade, it is managed trade between three countries. Subsidizing exports for political purposes is not free trade, its robbing the treasury . Imposing tariffs on imports to crush competitors is not free trade. High taxes causing jobs to export overseas isn't free trade. Halting companies from coming to our shores, competing for lower prices, and creating jobs is not free trade.

[xTAxGUNZ]

This guy has no clue what he is talking about. The United States follows Keynesian economics. John Maynard Keynes's Macroeconomic theory promotes interventionist economic policy. Everything the Fed does follows this economic theory. This theory is drastically different from Free Market Economics. The "Free Trade" this guy talks about is NAFTA which is actually managed trade. Nothing in this video has even a grain of truth to it.

[xinecallaw]

@Rustyshackleford08 Right now bonuses for enlisting, extremely rare, bonuses for re-enlisting even more rare. Recruiters now have the luxuary of turning down sub-optimal recruits, when in 2004-2005 you could have 2 broken bones in your body and still get approved to go to basic. I have to deal with grown men, in tears, when they get severely injuried because their family and them will be homless if med-boarded. This is only a scratch of the surface and is why I HATE BUSH/CHENEY/ REPUBLICANS.

[xinecallaw]

@Rustyshackleford08 (CONTINUED page 3) Listing of stop-loss began decreasing, even though troop levels increased in the middle east. In 2007 only 15% of trainies wanted any excuse to get out. I met someone with a FRACTURED C-SPINE from a car accident months before starting basic, and he was fine till combatives and it was re-injured. He was in tears because this was his LAST chance to provide for his family. People with surgically reconstructed knees trying to make it went up 300% (next post)

[xinecallaw]

(continued) I watched from 2001-2006, US ARMY Newspaper had 2-4 pages of MOS's under 'stop-loss' (you are not allowed to leave regardless of contract agreements). Recruiters were offering 25K to people enlisting in Infantry. Re-enlistment bonus's were available. Basic trainies would blantanly fake injuries to get the hell out at a 70% of those going to the hospital for exams. Late 2006, bonus's were being reduced, offered less, and % of crybaby trainies decrease dramatically (next post)

[xinecallaw]

@Rustyshackleford08 I take it your upset about our economic decline! Everything you listed is NOT the primary cause. (Lets see if this user name is terminated) Our economic crash was done ON PURPOSE! Shocking, but sadly true. Bush had to make a decision, either re-ignite the draft fire or crash economy giving people who want to provide for their family a choice, homeless or enlist. I work at MACH at fort benning georgia, from 2001-2006 and I was beside myself when I realized this (next post)

[longfootbuddy]

i hope an asteroid hits all you tyrant assholes that assume the right to control everyone else