Progressive Trade Rules

by
Steve MacDonald

Being beholden to unions causes you to say and do stupid things.  Take Carol Shea-Porter for example.  She was against a trade deal with Panama because she claimed it would cost American jobs, when it would actually open up trade from us to them–they already had unfettered access; result?–it would have created American jobs.

Provisions in the stimulus, among other bills, included union protectionist provisions that slowed progress, and killed a project right here in New Hampshire.  They even complicated trade with Canada as a shill to their union masters.

Along the same lines we have the manifold of progressive socialist Obamacrats ramping up a trade war with China under the misguided perception that making their stuff cost more will create jobs here.

No, it won’t.

It will make the stuff cost more here.  We’ll export less.  Companies in China that can, will move or open operations in any of a dozen other Asian nations, or even India, to by-pass tariffs, and take the jobs with them.

That’s a terribly simplistic way to frame it, but it is no less accurate.  And it is a fine example of why a democrat recovery was impossible.  They used a fiscal crisis to salt the fields at home with debt, taxation,  and uncertainty, and now they are erecting barriers abroad that will reduce exports and make imports cost more.  And now they want to monetize more debt. This is their plan to save the economy?  Put it in a coma is more like it.  

So democrats like Hodes and Shea-Porter were simply mules for the liberal-drug lords in the party leadership who were pushing big government as the opiate of the masses.  Their approach to free trade is just another left-wing, job killing dead end, but they can’t help themselves.  They get high off their own supply, and we suffer for it, trading your job for their failed vision for America.

We can only hope Trade is not on the menu in the remaining weeks of their tenure at the trough.

Author

  • Steve MacDonald

    Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, blogger, and a member of the Board of directors of The 603 Alliance. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor of GraniteGrok.com, a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, and a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

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