Trade WAR??!!

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The 'win' would be consumers getting quality goods at the lowest prices possible. I don't see that ever happening. All the hype and drama always ends and and the elite will still have a few more goodies than the ones who have no shoes and no electricity at the moment. If they are to inherit the world we should educated them as much as possible rather than keeping them as uneducated as possible. If 'we' are supposed to be the smart one why do we believe in lies and tell lies ourselves?? Let me guess, we only tell good lies and everybody else tells bad lies.
 
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MHz said:
The 'win' would be consumers getting quality goods at the lowest prices possible. I don't see that ever happening. All the hype and drama always ends and and the elite will still have a few more goodies than the ones who have no shoes and no electricity at the moment. If they are to inherit the world we should educated them as much as possible rather than keeping them as uneducated as possible. If 'we' are supposed to be the smart one why do we believe in lies and tell lies ourselves?? Let me guess, we only tell good lies and everybody else tells bad lies.
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"The Consumer" is a flock of sheep to be shorn.
 
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Exactly what has he won? If he wins as much with China as he won with Canada and Mexico then things will be pretty much unchanged.
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Until the new trade pzct is ratified (none of the three participants have done so) the "treaty" is nothing. There is a good chance that Congress will not ratify it and Canada and Mexico won't touch it with a barge pole, given half a chance.

NAFTA lives on and all that has happened is that Trump has convinced his high school educated demographic that he's the biggest, baddest tuff-guy of international trade,
ever.
 
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India alone would double China's production.

The US would buy stuff and bury it at sea rather than let anybody else advance themselves. That no longer works so if the US doesn't adapt power will just move to another location and the US can start paying off the $25T they owe to their masters.
 
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India alone would double China's production.

The US would buy stuff and bury it at sea rather than let anybody else advance themselves. That no longer works so if the US doesn't adapt power will just move to another location and the US can start paying off the $25T they owe to their masters.
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I see you still believe in the myth of the Chinese debt. Most of the US national debt is internal.
 
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http://williamengdahl.com/englishNEO12Nov2018.php
Stop-gap moves ​
The US Administration plans to address the 300 gaps with certain immediate measures including closing key supply-chain gaps and using Defense Authorization funds to expand key domestic manufacturing capacities such as lithium seawater batteries or cutting-edge fuel cells for the Navy’s future unmanned, underwater vehicles. It will also reinvigorate the 1939 Defense Stockpile Program for foreign-produced limited-source strategic and critical materials.
The main conclusion of the report is that, “China represents a significant and growing risk to the supply of materials deemed strategic and critical to U.S. national security.” This also explains why the focus of the ongoing Trump Administration trade war against China in fact concentrates on pressuring China to abandon its Made in China 2025 agenda with focus on making China dominant in advanced technologies over the coming decades.
On a deeper level, though it deals with the US defense industrial base, the report is a major expose of the true state of the overall domestic US industrial base following more than four decades of free trade, manufacturing offshore outsourcing and globalization. The good news is that World War III is not likely anytime soon despite all sabre-rattling. This is a good time to address the US debate to the far larger problem: how to correct the economic globalization that has all but destroyed the overall American industrial base and how to revive that civilian economy, something the warhawk neocons have no interest in reviving.








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F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”
 
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Does this mean heroin will be better and cheaper??
https://sputniknews.com/society/201811191069918136-florida-sues-big-pharma-aiding-US--opioid-crisis/
Florida is suing two major US drugstore chains, Walgreens and CVS, for their alleged contributions to the opioid crisis in the state and nationally.

On Friday, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that the two drugstore chains had been added to a state-court lawsuit filed last year against Purdue Pharma, which manufactures OxyContin (an opioid with a high risk for addiction and dependence) and other opioid distributors.

We will continue to pursue those companies that played a role in creating the opioid crisis," Bondi said in a news release. "Thousands of Floridians have suffered as a result of the actions of the defendants," she added, noting that CVS and Walgreens did not halt "suspicious orders of opioids" and "dispensed unreasonable quantities of opioids from their pharmacies."
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), around 45 people die in the US every single day as a result of opioid overdoses.
On Saturday, CVS spokesperson Mike DeAngelis remarked that the Florida opioid lawsuit alleging that it contributed to the national opioid epidemic is "without merit" and that the company is "dedicated to helping reduce prescription drug abuse and diversion," AP reported. He claimed that the company trains its pharmacists to discern and detect potentially illegal sales.
 
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Curious Cdn said:
... or they can wait for their government subsidy cheques like the tooth in'-tootin' free market dairy farmers in the U.S.A. do.
What a crock of shyte. If the free market did every single thing in Canada, the place would look like Mogadishu.
NEWS FLASH! Social Darwinism is dead. Intelligent collaboration put it out of business about eight generations ago.
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A socialistic policy works better than a capitalistic one in some areas, but a capitalistic one works better in most, and dairy falls in the latter category beyond health and sanitary regulations.
 
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