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Originally Posted by ranger240
to all the people here saying "fuck that, do that to china" and dumb crap like that
just scroll through this
Bloomberg.com: Search News - [ tire]
the headlines alone are reason enough to educated your ignorant ass why protectionism ruins economies and how its an unbelievably ignorant thing to do.
please try to come up with adequate counters, i'd love to laugh at them. |
I agree there, BUT that is also another 'can of worms'.
Depends on whether or not you believe in removing international trade barriers as a whole.
(I'm all for it, but you have to understand not everyone here will given the obvious political leanings)
Personally I'd rather see Obama work on reducing trade barriers foreign countries have on us.
That would most certainly increase the likelihood that more US goods/services are imported.
As one of the most powerful markets and wto members,
I'm confident we have enough influence to do just this.
Imposing tariffs on foreign countries isn't going to do squat,
other than perhaps win over some union votes when election time comes along.
Even if the Obama admin had to create publicity,
they could have done so against the interests of a less influential power.
(i.e. Clinton imposing Tariff on Japanese car parts, Bush on German steel).
It's one thing to play with petty politics (everyone does it).
It's quite another to be strategic about it.
I just hope this isn't an ongoing trend.