{"id":8776,"date":"2018-06-21T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=8776"},"modified":"2018-11-25T21:30:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T02:30:23","slug":"561-trump-trade-tirade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/8776","title":{"rendered":"561 – Trump trade tirade"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"G7-2018\"

It\u2019s too bad that the substance of U.S. President Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s statement at the G7 Summit<\/strong> in Charlevoix, Quebec on June 9 was utterly lost on the general public. His message needed to be heard.<\/p>\n

The media tirades against Trump\u2019s policy on trade serve a purpose and it is not to enlighten. Their purpose is to create confusion about where Trump stands on free trade, to hide corrupt trade practices like \u2018Supply Management\u2019 in Canada, and to express their hatred about the reality that U.S. President Donald Trump holds all the cards \u2013 and Canada\u2019s Prime Minister Trudeau holds none.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Both the mainstream media and Leftist political interests portray Trump\u2019s threats of tariffs and trade barriers as a threat to the status quo trade that exists now. None want to acknowledge Trump\u2019s strategy as a means to push other nations to drop their own tariffs, barriers, and subsidies \u2013 which is exactly what Donald Trump has been telling them he\u2019s doing all along. <\/p>\n

\u201cNo tariffs. No barriers. No subsidies. That\u2019s the way it should be,\u201d<\/strong> Trump stressed at the G7 Summit, but few have even heard these words, and continue to believe that Trump is against \u2018free trade.\u2019<\/p>\n

Added White House chief economic advisor Larry Kudlow<\/strong>: \u201cI don\u2019t know if (the NAFTA negotiators) were surprised by President Trump\u2019s free trade proclamation, but they certainly listened to it and we had lengthy discussions about that. Reduce barriers. In fact, go to zero. Zero tariffs. Zero subsidies. And along the way we\u2019ll have to clean up the international trading system. This is the best way to encourage economic growth.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has boldly and virtuously taken the position that Canada won\u2019t allow itself to get \u2018pushed around\u2019 by Trump. He has been supported by the likes of past Conservative MPs Jason Kenney and John Baird, as well as Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford who is about to take the helm as Ontario\u2019s premier elect. <\/p>\n

The free trade issue makes strange bedfellows. It also makes hypocrites of those who abandon recognized principles \u2013 to achieve power at the expense of losing their objective.<\/p>\n

Just ask Maxime Bernier<\/strong>, whose opinions on Canada\u2019s own trade barriers were expressed in a previously-deleted-from-his-book Chapter 5: \u201cLive or die with supply management.\u201d It is an indictment of supply management, both in theory and in practice.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, evidence and argument are often not enough to sway those who have interests to protect at the expense of the public purse.<\/p>\n

Consequently, there are those who view the issue of free trade as an \u2018ideological\u2019 one. Others see it as mere \u2018economic theory.<\/strong>\u2019 <\/p>\n

It is both, but it is more. Above all, free trade is a moral issue<\/strong> \u2013 one that concerns the justifiable use of force in society.<\/p>\n

Though the G7 nations would all benefit from trade free of tariffs and barriers, it is those opposing Trump who hypocritically hold most of the barrier cards in this trading game. Watching Canada\u2019s prime minister as the joker at the table, it\u2019s clear that America holds the Trump card<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Whether free trade is seen as economic theory or ideology, the bottom line on free trade is that in the end (and as an end), it\u2019s Just Right for everyone.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s too bad that the substance of U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s statement at the G7 Summit in Charlevoix, Quebec on June 9 was utterly lost on the general public. His message needed to be heard. The media tirades against Trump\u2019s policy on trade serve a purpose and it is not to enlighten. Their purpose is [Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,69,1046,28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-economics","category-foreign-relations-politics","category-latest","category-politics","issues-economics-2","issues-free-trade","issues-nafta","personalities-donald-trump","personalities-justin-trudeau","personalities-larry-kudlow","personalities-maxime-bernier","personalities-salim-mansur","category-12-id","category-69-id","category-1046-id","category-28-id","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8776"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8784,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8776\/revisions\/8784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}