Comments by "David Ford" (@davidford3115) on "Why is the US running away from "FREE TRADE"?" video.

@jamaicansunitedforchange5745 When nations like China and France heavily subsidize their industry, they are NOT participating in "Free trade". When your training partner is using back door tariffs like Value Added Tax to imported products at the shelves instead of the port is NOT free Trade, it is cheating.
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@Kam If indeed the rising tide did lift all boats, you would have a point. The problem is, free trade doesn't benefit everyone, it only benefits a few transnational businesses. The local regional and small-time operations suffer while the mega-corporations squeeze them out of the market.
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@fturatti Funny, because the most prosperous nations have always depended on their mercantile class. The most technologically innovative societies have had a robust merchant populace.
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This, completely. Also, a tariff goes on any product subsidized by the government. Germany and France are notorious for propping up their local companies against foreign competition.
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@NewsGuyFred You are ignoring that EU countries heavily subsidize their industries (particularly auto and aviation) that directly compete against Us businesses. THAT is protectionism under a different guise.
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@kasper2970 You seem to forget that both Germany and France heavily subsidize their industries. Without that government assistance, they would not be anywhere near as competitive with US manufacturers.
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@schadelharry4048 I will agree with that. You described exactly what Thomas Jefferson warned when he said banking institutions were more dangerous than standing armies. These speculators who extract wealth from the system without contributing anything of value into it. And Warren Buffet is the classic example. Not surprising when he is following in the same game that Alex Hamilton and Henry Knox did which lead up to Shay's Rebellion. And again, which lead to the Whiskey Rebellion. Same players, same problems, no accountability.
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@Kam I agree with you on both of those points. If America was as bad as people claimed, why are they willing to die to get here? And you explained the why perfectly. I also agree with you about the socialism part. Nikia Khruschev warned us that we would be subverted from within. That warning was ignored, particularly by the advocates of capitalism and free markets who for one reason or another are unable to articulate why socialism ALWAYS fails spectacularly. "The great problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money," -Maggie Thatcher, UK's "Iron Lady".
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@gingernutpreacher Honestly? Biden. When he made the money printer go "brrrrr", it made the problem EXPONETIALLY worse.
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The elitists in Washington certainly TRY to centrally plan the way the Soviet Politburo did. A pesky little think called innovation keeps getting in the way. The Shale Oil Fracking boom in particular threw a wrench in their plans.
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@Student0Toucher Precisely.
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Okay, how about you take the locks off your doors and windows and let anyone who wants to enter your personal home. See how that works out for you.
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@r0b0coffee False. "Wealth tax" just means legalized theft. It is more that confiscation of assets without compensation. And no, income inequality is NOT a destabilizing factor because not all work is equal. Trying to make unequal things equal IS the destabilizing factor. The reason being that if regardless of effort everyone gets the same result, then the incentive to work completely disappears. "They pretended to pay us, and we pretended to work," -Joke about the reality of Soviet Socialism.
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@anonkiddo Now that context, I will accept. You presented a more nuanced analysis than your first post, and I have a much harder time disagreeing with the follow-up. I retract my accusation of Anglophobia.
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@johnsmith-cw3wo You only THINK you did. You are like the pigeon playing chess: it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory.
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@skp8748 "Force Imperialism"? I don't think you understand what empire building. entails. The Soviets built and empire of "Democratic Socialism" by the sword. The US built a free world through trade, not by the gun.
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@DiviAugusti TPP isn't a self-own, it was acknowledgement that the agreement was basically giving the store away to China. Keep shilling for the globalist elites who think of you as nothing more than chattel.
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Trump, yes. Biden, no. Biden's policies are basically a repeat of the Obama policies.
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Very well described. I wish more people realized what you see.
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Chomsky isn't entirely correct, though. NAFTA has empowered the "workers of the world unite" unionist movement. In particular, his complete embrace of Marx's labor theory of value is rather bizarre considering that it has been completely disproven by the likes of Carl Menger, August von Misses, and Fredrick Hayek.
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@gingernutpreacher Oh, I agree that Obama was an Anglophobia. That was in part because of his man-bitch father and floozy of a mother who was just as rabidly anti-west. My point is that Biden is Obama's third term will ALL of the Obama activist radical staffers carried over. I also agree that the nations of the English Commonwealth ARE natural allies because of our shared heritage. Sadly, the precepts of English common law have fallen by the wayside.
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@kasper2970 Yeah, why is it that for all of those supposed "research" subsidies, very little in the way of actual innovation occurs in EU countries? Why is it that the US and Israel dominate with the South Koreans and Japanese a distant third? Actually, goes to a very simple answer, one explained quite well in the book "Wealth of Nations". It is the top-down model which stifles creativity and innovation because it upsets the status quo. You can make excuses and use all the deflections and verbosity you want, Europe just isn't competitive against the US without the local governments putting their thumb on the scale.
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Free Trade is the Globalist's wet dream. Globalism cannot occur without it.
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When "free trade" partners are subsidizing their local industries to complete with foreign companies, that is NOT free trade.
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And the fact that America's elites have benefited while allowing foreign interests to rip off the country hasn't helped either.
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@Kam Exactly. The most vocal advocates of socialism have never actually had to live under it. And they contemptuously dismiss the experiences of those who have. Yeah, the Tytler cycle you quoted reminds me of George S. Patton's speech to the Third Army about how the cowards will breed like rats.
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@kasper2970 The grass isn't greener on the other side of the fence. For one, your "universal medicine" is abominably bad. Zero innovation and breakthroughs. You have to wait as much as six months to see a doctor. Affordability is NOT the same as accessibility; you experience medical rationing. As far as education, yet again you are being dishonest. The elites and well connected do get good education, but the regular citizen does not. You hide it behind testing that skews in favor of the elites at the expense of the working class. Education is treated just like medicine: those with power can get it, but the commoner doesn't. And don't get me started on the abuse of labor with regards to doing the bare minimum. When you can't get fired for incompetence, there is no accountability and much graft and corruption. "They pretended to pay us, and we pretended to work," -joke about the "workers' paradise" of the USSR.
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@jeffreyschnedar8020 And yet again with the false narrative. You are only looking at the top 100 companies, not the vast majority of businesses. Trying to compare the Fortune 500 to the rest of the business world is apples to oranges false analogy. MOST small business CEOs are also the principle investor. Which means if the company loses money, THEY personally lose their shirt. If the business folds, the employees lose their job, but the CEO loses EVERYTHING. Again, don't pretend that the top 100 in any way represent the rest of the world.
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Wow, talk about an Anglophobic perspective. Purchasing power is only part of the equation. You seem to forget that in the trade, the partner nations DOES get something of equitable value DESPITE the purchasing power disparity. Where you are taking issue has more to do with the ruling elites of said trade partner not sharing the wealth with their laborers who are exploited.
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@willjapheth23789 Intellectual laziness I take it? The Great Depression was caused by out-of-control banking institutions, not trade tariffs. Try reading the Glass-Stegal Act and you will understand the WHY that created the Great Depression.
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@Homer-OJ-Simpson You didn't even watch the video did you? At 15:25 they address all of that under the WTO's Favored Nation clause. But like a typical America hater, you chose to ignore the dirty little details that destroy your narrative.
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@Homer-OJ-Simpson Wow, you just proved Perun's point about Russian propagandists. You fill out all of the checkboxes: 1: Lack of commitment of Objective Reality: you hold emotional claims that you agree with as automatically correct regardless of facts. 2: Unilateral Thinking: You cite as evidence things that directly contradict your narrative. 3: Lack of commitment to consistency: You will make contraditory and conflicting claims that are mutually exclusive. You ignore nuance in favor of absolutism. And the goal is to chaff the information space and create just enough confusion to make people simply disengage rather than debate.
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@johnsmith-cw3wo Nice job attacking the messenger rather than debating the merits of the message. Thank you for essentially tacitly admitting defeat.
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@johnsmith-cw3wo Learn to debate. You haven't proven anything except that you are ruled by emotions and can't be bothered to do your due diligence.
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@KevinLyda "Renewable energy" is a sham. If it was truly profitable, there would already be a John D. Rockefeller of green energy. That there is not one shows that it is a boondoggle.
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@badluck5647 At a time when Americans were experiencing the greats growth in personal income. I think you are looking at numbers without actually looking at the whole picture. "Lies, damn lies, and statistics," -Mark Twain. "Figures don't lie, but liars figure," -Mark Twain
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