Replies to post #264499 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[janice shell]

David Frum, the author, is of course a Republican and a conservative.

[fuagf]

To link Krugman's Trump, Trade and Workers .. bits ..

Donald Trump .. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/donald-trump-on-the-issues.html?inline=nyt-per .. gave a speech ..
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/full-transcript-trump-job-plan-speech-224891 .. on economic policy last week. Just about every
factual assertion he made was wrong, but I’m not going to do a line-by-line critique. What I want to do, instead, is talk about
the general thrust: the candidate’s claim to be on the side of American workers.

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In fact, even as he tried to pose as a populist he repeated the same falsehoods usually used to justify anti-worker policies.
We are, he declared, “one of the highest taxed nations in the world.” Actually, among 34 advanced countries, we’re No. 31 ..
https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=REV . And, regulations are “an even greater impediment” to our
competitiveness than taxes: Actually, we’re far less regulated than, say, Germany, which runs a gigantic trade surplus.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=124973814 ..

to your .. Trump’s Trade War May Have Already Begun
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=128351888