Balanced trade is not reasonable nor good for the country. If we believe in the principle of consumer sovereignty the only person who can rightly decide who to buy from is the buyer. Government cannot improve on the behavior of buyer and seller. There is a fatal conceit out there among people who believe that people cannot manage their own affairs but that we need the heavy hand of government to control them.
People who are not followed are not good leaders.
Even in ten dayhs! There is another side to that story, of course.
FACTS MATTER! I have asked you on several other occasions to step up and be accountable for this claim. Crickets to an extent that extremely undercuts your credibility.
Sure.
Please show the character to hold yourself accountable for what you claim as fact.
A JW FOIA request is hardly an investigation.
You may think that this is an interesting question but if you open up, you may realize that that is not what Brooks is writing about. And that he is writing about something important
LOL, you are in a economic fantasy. Consumers select from what’s available in their store. Govt regulations, quotas and tariffs have a direct impact on their available choices.
Why do we need balanced trade?
I read the article, and yes, in fact, he is, like others, still trying to make sense of Trump’s win, because in his mind he’s a misogynistic blowhard that should never have won.
I guess that’s why ACLJ are getting a federal court order to get that information that was redacted (talking points between the FBI and the DOJ).
First, that is not what Brooks wrote about. Second, you haven’t a clue to his mind. Third, what he is writing about is how do we return to moral values when we have demonstrated with our votes that we attach no value to character, caritas, and goodliness. Fourth, your analysis o why he won is mere hypothesizing a/opinion.
I read the article, and yes, in fact, he is, like others, still trying to make sense of Trump’s win, because in his mind he’s a misogynistic blowhard that should never have won.
Trump won based on issues such as economics, immigration and Obamacare, anything else is mere hypothesizing/opinion, like the three groups that he more or less placed Americans under, which does not explain registered Democrats who voted for Trump (to make states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, red), nor faithful Catholics who voted from Trump.
I think he won because Hillary Clinton was the epitome of the candidate who doesn’t listen before she tells you what is good for you. I don’t know if Trump listened, but the way he talked people felt as if he were listening. Maybe that is because he talks the way they do, maybe because he actually did listen, but it is certainly because he got his golf cart out of the major metropolitan areas and into some of the rest of the nation, too.
Really, so people who voted for Trump are foregoing moral values, whereas people who voted for Clinton are upholding moral values, because I see no indictment of Hillary’s character, or of people who chose to vote for her, but why shouldn’t I be surprised, this is the NYT, the very same news outlet that was pro-Hillary Clinton (and still is)/anti-Trump.
Anyone an make a FOIA request. We will see if they are getting access to the redactions that they want lifted. There are limits to what is available.
Actually, my revised post to his response, i.e., not the initial response I gave, does take into consideration Hillary Clinton’s character
Persistent trade deficits are exportations of wealth, while temporary trade deficits can be importations of the necessary resources to create wealth.
Everything about your statement is off the mark. So sad.
You missed his premise.
You speak unjustly of a decent and wise man. Evidently, that is what Trump has brought out in you.
I have heard you.