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America Leaves Itself Behind

In the event you aren’t paying lots of attention to international trade, here’s an update: The world is busily signing bilateral trade treaties that each signing country sees as in their favor… and American Democrats in Congress and the White House, in thrall to their union compatriots, are not signing anything, dragging America farther and farther behind in international trade and the prosperity that ALWAYS comes from such trade.

Anyone who actually thinks other countries will pay attention to our bleats about human rights, women’s rights, the environment, nuclear weapons, etc., when we are totally disengaging from that world is just[…]

Obama, Chrysler and the WTO

Here’s a good question for the Obamafia:

The WTO was engineered to ensure that companies whose governments subsidized them could not unfairly compete against privately-owned companies (basically so that European companies could not beat American private enterprise through government subsidies).

QUESTION:

Now that the US Administration owns a significant part of Chrysler — is that ownership a violation of the WTO accords?

(http://detnews.com/article/20090513/OPINION01/905130323/1008/Uncle-Sam-throws-wrench )

ANSWER:

Of course it is.

The government owns 80% of the company (and unconstitutionally took a majority stake to give to its favorite special interest - the UAW… your tax dollars at work subsidizing a failed union model to buy votes… nope, no[…]