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fasttense

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9. Obama's trade policies have been no different from a RepubliCON's
Sun Mar 20, 2016, 11:02 AM
Mar 2016

In one of his state of the Union addresses he started listing what All Americans believed. "We all believe in freedom, we all believe in democracy," and he said, "We all believe in free trade." That's when I knew we would continue to suffer from a corporate controlled economic system run by handful of elites. That's when I knew the corporate thieves of this world had nothing to fear from Obama.

There is no such thing as free trade. Trade has always been regulated from the time of slavery and feudalism to today. You can never really have free trade because the closer you get to it the more it resembles criminal behavior. Eventual, if trade were Free of all regulation, people would be out and out stealing because there would be no rules. And adding globalism to the list of tortured free trade ideology does not make it any less a Utopian pipe dream. When you hear free trade and globalism used you know it's RepubliCON code for neofascism.

Anyway though I agree with your assessment of Obama and Hillary's stand on trade. You've got Bernie's stand on war and peace all wrong. Go to his web site here if you really want to know what he thinks about war and peace: https://berniesanders.com/issues/war-and-peace/

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Thank you Bill Clinton for jamming Hillary's globalism agenda down our throats. Kip Humphrey Mar 2016 #1
When the Clinton's DLC morphed into The Third Way they went Global FreakinDJ Mar 2016 #2
"... new political faith", for the New Democrat Party Ferd Berfel Mar 2016 #3
This is what I don't get about the Obama adoration here. highoverheadspace Mar 2016 #4
Obama's trade policies have been no different from a RepubliCON's fasttense Mar 2016 #9
Not sure why you blame all of it on Obama Perseus Mar 2016 #20
I'm not going to go through your list. I won't be taking the bait. highoverheadspace Mar 2016 #22
Noone is throwing you a bait, and that sounds like an excuse to not Perseus Mar 2016 #23
Jesus, wake up please. highoverheadspace Mar 2016 #24
What a crock SCantiGOP Mar 2016 #5
IMO, cramming DU with foolishness like this Hortensis Mar 2016 #7
So, can you elaborate a bit? KPN Mar 2016 #8
We must seriously question your motivation for criticizing... gregcrawford Mar 2016 #10
What's wrong with Ross Perot? TheFarseer Mar 2016 #18
+1. Wait for TPP. It's gonna get much worse. India and China have proven whereisjustice Mar 2016 #6
Have you noticed that Hillary holds few rallies? dixiegrrrrl Mar 2016 #12
Facts Facts Facts SoLeftIAmRight Mar 2016 #11
K&R. JDPriestly Mar 2016 #13
I'd be interested in knowing TheFarseer Mar 2016 #14
There always have been people who wanted to rule the entire world. Let's begin with Cal33 Mar 2016 #15
Well if anyone would know it would be the main organizations like the WTO that hurt nations Rex Mar 2016 #16
Trump is talking about building infrastructure but I expect him to run to the World Bank. Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2016 #17
H-1b and TPP Arizona Roadrunner Mar 2016 #19
Blame FDR and Truman. There was no international trade organization under Coolidge and Hoover. pampango Mar 2016 #21
Not really, mostly it arbitrates trade disputes bhikkhu Mar 2016 #25
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