Republicans are more anti-trade than Democrats

Fenton said:

Actually Oil, even when it was valuable enough to justify new exploration was only 10% of Texas's GDP

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That's an insanely large amount of wealth when you consider the size of Texas.

Fenton said:

Texas isn't a outlier, its a thorn in the side of the Progressive agenda because by example we negate so many of the lefts empty talking points

Texas shouldn't be as prosperous as it is according to toxic misinformation you people perpetuate

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Then you don't know what an outlier is. I just listed for you 7 other states off the top of my head that have economic policies that are virtually identical to Texas that are failing miserably. You can offer no explanation of any kind for why conservative economic policies are failing so miserably in those states, yet I have explained perfectly how Texas is thriving despite them.

You can only come up with one progressive state that is "bad" and as I've pointed out, it's really not bad at all. It has room for improvement, but given the choice most people in this country would much rather live in California than Texas. That's just a reality. Meanwhile I have provided you with 9 other progressive states that doing very very well economically. Far better than almost the entire conservative south. Yet you have offered no explanation of how that is possible.

Keep worshiping your false economic god pal. Texas is going to be in for a very very rude awakening in the next decade or so as oil becomes more and more obsolete.

Gimmesometruth said:

FFS...you don't understand economics....or English:

"Republicans, who claim to stand for free markets, are likely to nominate a crude protectionist..."

It is a clear reference to Trump being a protectionist, a crude one.

Cmon man.

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Yes, the phrase "crude protectionist" is clearly singular. In the English language, that means it's referring to one person.

MrWonka said:

Poll: Americans prefer low prices to items "Made in the USA" - CBS News



Interesting as Paul Krugman made a similar argument recently and got attacked by Bernie supporters and right wingers as being crazy, but this poll seems to back that claim up quite well.

http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=h...de-labor-and-politics.html?smid=pl-share&_r=1

The reality is that most of the people losing manufacturing jobs in this country are blue collar white men in relatively rural areas. Maybe it shouldn't be such a surprise that Trump is doing so well with his anti-trade stances. This just kind of goes to show what democrats have long said that huge chunks of the republican voting block are the ones hurt the most by their policies. Too bad Republicans just rope them in with guns and god.

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In Econ. 101 you learn the Golden Rule:

The more with whom you trade the richer you get whether they are across the street or across the globe. The fewer with whom you trade the poorer you get. Imagine how poor you'd be if you had to trade with 1000 people only, or, imagine if there was no trade and you had to make everything yourself. This is Econ 101 class one day one

Also, you learn that Hawley Smoot Tariff trade wars helped caused the Great Depression by collapsing word trade.

Now you know why we have free trade and why virtually all economists find it about the only thing upon which they can agree.

James972 said:

Now you know why we have free trade and why virtually all economists find it about the only thing upon which they can agree.

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Sure...., but what I'm pointing out here to you is that Democrats actually understand this better than Republicans.

MrWonka said:

Sure...., but what I'm pointing out here to you is that Democrats actually understand this better than Republicans.

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most economists agree on free trade, Republicans politicians favor free trade more than Democratic ones, the electorate lacks the ability to understand the issue

James972 said:

most economists agree on free trade, Republicans politicians favor free trade more than Democratic ones,

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False. They want protections for workers who get screwed to come with it, and they want protections to insure other countries are treating their employees well to come with it.

James972 said:

the electorate lacks the ability to understand the issue

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No, the Republican base lacks that ability.

MrWonka said:

No, the Republican base lacks that ability.

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who cares about the base???80% in both parties cant name the president and vice president!! the issue is why do you oppose the one thing economists agree on, namely, free trade!!??