Translation: I don't like people who disagree with me, therefore I'll just reject them and believe in my fantasy.
First of all, I doubt very much that Trump is going to dump all trade deals. I doubt he's even going to dump NAFTA, the US, Canadian and Mexican economies are too integrated now to imagine throwing up monster tariff walls would do anything but harm American interests.
Second of all, your forty years too late to save the Rust Belt, and the Rust Belt is hardly the first manufacturing area to go into a long-term decline. That's what happens.
The fact is that the only illness here is a lot of peoples unwillingness to accept that life is about change, and a few crafty politicians that have sold them a load of shit. Do you seriously think that Apple is going to decamp its manufacturing back to the US? The only thing that will happen is that any attempts at increasing tariffs on foreign-manufactured products like electronics will lead factories in Asia to further automate to bring price points down. And really, that would just hasten what's already happening.
And that's the reality. Those Chinese and Mexican workers undercutting your much vaunted half-century old wages are a decade or two from being in the same place. Your real war ought to be with the robots, but then again, that would make you little different than all the fletchers angry that cannon and musket put them out of business, or all the proverbial buggy whip manufacturers put out of business by Henry Ford.
I actually pity you, that you imagine that a mere politician has the power to restrain progress for any great length of time. My tip to you is rather than moan because you can't get a good job in manufacturing like your old man did, is to get an education. And that is where the government could help, but it won't help anyone by tariff wars that will only end up hurting domestic interests.
While I agree calling a large portion of the electorate bigots is a loser of a tactic, the fact is that Clinton actually did get the majority of the votes, so many that, as one commentator put it, she has received more votes than any presidential candidate not named "Obama".
After the tundra has barfed megatons of methane into the atmosphere making things worse. And, of course, rain patterns will shift, which means traditional breadbaskets like the American midwest will suddenly find themselves with much hotter drier summers.
That there might be a few winners out of this doesn't mean there aren't going to be a LOT more losers.
But there really is no going back. Do you really think even if all the factories open, they'll be paying the wages they did in the 90s or that they would be employing as many people.
You can't turn back time, and starting tariff wars and raising domestic prices will only hurt Americans.
The Rust Belt had already been in decline for over a decade by the time the WTO agreements were made. And you're forgetting that before WTO was GATT, so it's not like there weren't multilateral trade agreements.
So I'll ask again, what do you propose to replace it with? Do you wish to have American goods disadvantaged on the international markets? And what if the rest of the world decides to enter multilateral agreements, and larger trading partners like the EU and the Asian nations start throwing up trade barriers to US goods?
What's more, all those jobs you reference are going to disappear no matter what. Automation is increasingly going to reduce employment, even in those countries where many such jobs have gone. Once again we see how the "anti-globalist" types are little more than naive luddites.
Except, of course, it isn't, and increasing emissions is only going to make it worse, but Trump will be long out of office, and the people who benefit from fuckwits like you just mindlessly repeating the memes they've created will have already cashed in their chips.
Who gives a fuck about the stock market. The stock market is just a casino. Right now it is the bond markets that are showing dangerous weakness, and the world runs on bonds.
Which really means he'll be making very few trade treaties at all. Bilateral treaties can take nearly as long to negotiate as multilateral agreements.
The chief reason for TPP was to create a trade alliance to stand up to China, as part of a much larger effort to counterbalance China's growing influence through the rest of this century. We can certainly criticize aspects of TPP, and I agree that groups like RIAA gained far too much influence over the final drafts of the agreement. But underlying this is the notion of a counterbalance to China, which I think is still sound. Even Trump has stated his misgivings about China, so surely the idea of a certain kind of economic "containment" wouldn't be alien to his administration, and I fail to see how spending years on bilateral agreements would help there.
They have to respond, and in their view, the idiocy of the response is irrelevant. All that matters is that they raised an objection, no matter how utterly moronic it is.
Yes, Saskatchewan has the last pseudo-skeptic Premier in the country. Of course, the pseudo-skeptics like Postmedia (the Canadian oil industry's advertising branch masquerading as a newspaper chain) is cheering for Trump to kill the US's involvement in the Paris agreement, and naturally insisting "Well, there's no point to Canada fighting climate change, because the US won't".
Meanwhile, the very same newspaper chain is reporting that the Arctic is 20 degrees warmer than normal for this time of year.
I keep thinking that some point really soon the mounting evidence of serious climate shifts will override even the hardest critics, but then again, AGW pseudoskepticism has become a sort of a cult of its own, which follows the same bizarre and idiotic credo of the Creationists, both groups declaring almost every other day "Any day now, that nasty scientific theory I hate is going to be disproven."
What a great idea. That way people can just walk into the studio in your delightful little heaven, put guns to the producers' heads and force them to hand over the video, because FREE!!!!!
You do understand that New Hampshire is part of the United States, and you can't have a "free state" inside a nation state or a constituent jurisdiction. You'd best relocate your little commune to Mars.
To be honest, what do many of us care about the higher resolution? I've been renting movies from Google Play for a while now, and I never buy the high-def version (which is always a buck or two more), and unless I'm standing about six inches from my TV, I couldn't tell the difference. I guess if I hard a very large TV or a projection TV, that would make a difference, but then again, people watch DVDs on those TVs without too many complaints. Beyond that, I'm on a shitty DSL connection that I get nailed if I go over a limit (something like 30gb, can't quite remember), so if I start viewing streaming video at highest resolution, well, I'm going to breaking that particular thermometer every month.
It's the perfect security system. Your system will slow to a crawl, to the point where you just get up and go do something else, never having put any confidential data on your computer at all.
Unless it's diluted in some way, throwing that much salt into the waters off the California coast would fuck up coastal waters even more than decades of fertilizer runoff already has.
I have a 8" x86 tablet running Windows 10, and it may be one of the worst mobile devices I've ever possessed. I got it for free with the purchase of a 13" laptop from the Microsoft store, so I can't bitch too much, but oh my god is Windows 10 a terrible terrible terrible small screen experience. I wish I could unlock the thing and installed x86 Android on it. As it is, it sits in a drawer and maybe, if I feel like paying for the mini HDMI cable and a Bluetooth keyboard, I might throw it on my TV to run VLC
Well, one thing is fairly likely; Trump won't be pardoning him either. There's an old adage "Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason."
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Translation: I don't like people who disagree with me, therefore I'll just reject them and believe in my fantasy.
First of all, I doubt very much that Trump is going to dump all trade deals. I doubt he's even going to dump NAFTA, the US, Canadian and Mexican economies are too integrated now to imagine throwing up monster tariff walls would do anything but harm American interests.
Second of all, your forty years too late to save the Rust Belt, and the Rust Belt is hardly the first manufacturing area to go into a long-term decline. That's what happens.
The fact is that the only illness here is a lot of peoples unwillingness to accept that life is about change, and a few crafty politicians that have sold them a load of shit. Do you seriously think that Apple is going to decamp its manufacturing back to the US? The only thing that will happen is that any attempts at increasing tariffs on foreign-manufactured products like electronics will lead factories in Asia to further automate to bring price points down. And really, that would just hasten what's already happening.
And that's the reality. Those Chinese and Mexican workers undercutting your much vaunted half-century old wages are a decade or two from being in the same place. Your real war ought to be with the robots, but then again, that would make you little different than all the fletchers angry that cannon and musket put them out of business, or all the proverbial buggy whip manufacturers put out of business by Henry Ford.
I actually pity you, that you imagine that a mere politician has the power to restrain progress for any great length of time. My tip to you is rather than moan because you can't get a good job in manufacturing like your old man did, is to get an education. And that is where the government could help, but it won't help anyone by tariff wars that will only end up hurting domestic interests.
While I agree calling a large portion of the electorate bigots is a loser of a tactic, the fact is that Clinton actually did get the majority of the votes, so many that, as one commentator put it, she has received more votes than any presidential candidate not named "Obama".
After the tundra has barfed megatons of methane into the atmosphere making things worse. And, of course, rain patterns will shift, which means traditional breadbaskets like the American midwest will suddenly find themselves with much hotter drier summers.
That there might be a few winners out of this doesn't mean there aren't going to be a LOT more losers.
So, in other words, the grand plan to bring all that manufacturing home is a deluded dream that Trump used to buy votes.
But there really is no going back. Do you really think even if all the factories open, they'll be paying the wages they did in the 90s or that they would be employing as many people.
You can't turn back time, and starting tariff wars and raising domestic prices will only hurt Americans.
The Rust Belt had already been in decline for over a decade by the time the WTO agreements were made. And you're forgetting that before WTO was GATT, so it's not like there weren't multilateral trade agreements.
So I'll ask again, what do you propose to replace it with? Do you wish to have American goods disadvantaged on the international markets? And what if the rest of the world decides to enter multilateral agreements, and larger trading partners like the EU and the Asian nations start throwing up trade barriers to US goods?
What's more, all those jobs you reference are going to disappear no matter what. Automation is increasingly going to reduce employment, even in those countries where many such jobs have gone. Once again we see how the "anti-globalist" types are little more than naive luddites.
Except, of course, it isn't, and increasing emissions is only going to make it worse, but Trump will be long out of office, and the people who benefit from fuckwits like you just mindlessly repeating the memes they've created will have already cashed in their chips.
That is until people start having to pay $10,000 for a Bluray player.
So what is it exactly you would replace globalization with?
Who gives a fuck about the stock market. The stock market is just a casino. Right now it is the bond markets that are showing dangerous weakness, and the world runs on bonds.
Which really means he'll be making very few trade treaties at all. Bilateral treaties can take nearly as long to negotiate as multilateral agreements.
The chief reason for TPP was to create a trade alliance to stand up to China, as part of a much larger effort to counterbalance China's growing influence through the rest of this century. We can certainly criticize aspects of TPP, and I agree that groups like RIAA gained far too much influence over the final drafts of the agreement. But underlying this is the notion of a counterbalance to China, which I think is still sound. Even Trump has stated his misgivings about China, so surely the idea of a certain kind of economic "containment" wouldn't be alien to his administration, and I fail to see how spending years on bilateral agreements would help there.
They have to respond, and in their view, the idiocy of the response is irrelevant. All that matters is that they raised an objection, no matter how utterly moronic it is.
You know exactly what you are.
And it's populated by pseudoskeptics desperate to cling to their delusions.
Because there's no other way at all to heat a home...
No, we're not heading for another ice age, and no "real scientific evidence" proves it.
Yes, Saskatchewan has the last pseudo-skeptic Premier in the country. Of course, the pseudo-skeptics like Postmedia (the Canadian oil industry's advertising branch masquerading as a newspaper chain) is cheering for Trump to kill the US's involvement in the Paris agreement, and naturally insisting "Well, there's no point to Canada fighting climate change, because the US won't".
Meanwhile, the very same newspaper chain is reporting that the Arctic is 20 degrees warmer than normal for this time of year.
I keep thinking that some point really soon the mounting evidence of serious climate shifts will override even the hardest critics, but then again, AGW pseudoskepticism has become a sort of a cult of its own, which follows the same bizarre and idiotic credo of the Creationists, both groups declaring almost every other day "Any day now, that nasty scientific theory I hate is going to be disproven."
I think you should be modded "-1 fucking ignorant moron".
What a great idea. That way people can just walk into the studio in your delightful little heaven, put guns to the producers' heads and force them to hand over the video, because FREE!!!!!
You do understand that New Hampshire is part of the United States, and you can't have a "free state" inside a nation state or a constituent jurisdiction. You'd best relocate your little commune to Mars.
To be honest, what do many of us care about the higher resolution? I've been renting movies from Google Play for a while now, and I never buy the high-def version (which is always a buck or two more), and unless I'm standing about six inches from my TV, I couldn't tell the difference. I guess if I hard a very large TV or a projection TV, that would make a difference, but then again, people watch DVDs on those TVs without too many complaints. Beyond that, I'm on a shitty DSL connection that I get nailed if I go over a limit (something like 30gb, can't quite remember), so if I start viewing streaming video at highest resolution, well, I'm going to breaking that particular thermometer every month.
It's the perfect security system. Your system will slow to a crawl, to the point where you just get up and go do something else, never having put any confidential data on your computer at all.
Unless it's diluted in some way, throwing that much salt into the waters off the California coast would fuck up coastal waters even more than decades of fertilizer runoff already has.
I have a 8" x86 tablet running Windows 10, and it may be one of the worst mobile devices I've ever possessed. I got it for free with the purchase of a 13" laptop from the Microsoft store, so I can't bitch too much, but oh my god is Windows 10 a terrible terrible terrible small screen experience. I wish I could unlock the thing and installed x86 Android on it. As it is, it sits in a drawer and maybe, if I feel like paying for the mini HDMI cable and a Bluetooth keyboard, I might throw it on my TV to run VLC
I'm not sure whether I should be feel honored or mortified that I'm mentioned in this.
Well, one thing is fairly likely; Trump won't be pardoning him either. There's an old adage "Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason."