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Who here doesn't realize that the push for globalization and free international trade began with GATT shortly after WW2 as a way to create interdependence between the industrialized nations? And that the entire point of this was to avoid a third world war? Of course the wild card at the time was the USSR. Other than that, has there been a 3rd world war in the last 73 years? No.
Moreover, starting in the 1980s (IIRC), outsourcing ramped up as a way to rein in inflation. Was it not? Weren't we told that manufacturing under "lower cost structures" in foreign nations would bring us less inflation in the checkout lanes?
Trump has promised a bunch of angry, disenfranchised manufacturing workers in the Rust Belt their high wage jobs back through what appears to be Nationalistic Isolationism. The very thing that led to serious problems in the last century. He actually jacked up our import tariffs, then demanded everyone else drop theirs.
Hmmm.….. What could possibly go wrong?
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Last edited by BlueStreak; 06-10-2018 at 12:43 AM.
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