SavannahMann
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Group think is perhaps the most dangerous thing in the world. It is true about science, it is true about social issues, and it's true about economics. If anyone who challenges the accepted thought is denounced as some sort of heretic, you know you have a problem.
Economics is the subject today. This town got thrown to the wolves, and suddenly economists care
It is what many people tried to argue about when NAFTA was being debated, and they were told it was shut up this is the future and we have to do it. If they challenged the accepted thought, we were told that Nobel Winning economists all agreed Free Trade was the best, it would be a great thing, and it was the future.
When we saw the destruction sweep across the land, and we raised questions, we were told that those industries were dying, and the future was in solar, and technology, and whatever. Now, we are becoming a service industry nation, and towns like the one highlighted in the article are dying, or dead. This isn't some western ghost town where the gold ran out and the people just up and left. It was a town with thriving industry, and was decimated by the globalization.
These are the people that Trump spoke to, people who get snorted at when they point out the devastation of Free Trade.
If you live in a town where manufacturing was king, then you just need to leave. Because that's so last century. Get over it, move on.
Free Trade between economic equals is actually a good thing. Free trade between economic inequality is just offshoring the jobs, and raping the more powerful nation.
That's the truth gang.
Economics is the subject today. This town got thrown to the wolves, and suddenly economists care
It is what many people tried to argue about when NAFTA was being debated, and they were told it was shut up this is the future and we have to do it. If they challenged the accepted thought, we were told that Nobel Winning economists all agreed Free Trade was the best, it would be a great thing, and it was the future.
When we saw the destruction sweep across the land, and we raised questions, we were told that those industries were dying, and the future was in solar, and technology, and whatever. Now, we are becoming a service industry nation, and towns like the one highlighted in the article are dying, or dead. This isn't some western ghost town where the gold ran out and the people just up and left. It was a town with thriving industry, and was decimated by the globalization.
These are the people that Trump spoke to, people who get snorted at when they point out the devastation of Free Trade.
If you live in a town where manufacturing was king, then you just need to leave. Because that's so last century. Get over it, move on.
Free Trade between economic equals is actually a good thing. Free trade between economic inequality is just offshoring the jobs, and raping the more powerful nation.
That's the truth gang.
