Rachel Maddow slaps the shit out of Limbaugh, leaves mark

[JDPriestly]

54. Spitfire of ATJ, that is exactly how it works in that crowd.

To them, the fact that they have accumulated lots of dollars in their trading accounts means that they are smarter and more valuable than other people.

In fact, they are simply more destructive and less creative than other people. They don't realize that they are tearing down our economy, not building anything.

Even Staples and similar stores mostly seem to import a lot of the stuff they sell. And many of the items they import and sell used to be made in the USA.

Of course, we should participate in trade and import things from other countries -- but we should not import things from other countries when so many Americans can't find work. And we are fooling ourselves if we think we can survive for long as the producers of primarily and pretty much only equipment that is used in other countries to produce our consumer goods.

We are living in a fools' paradise. We get cheap imports and are losing our capacity to be independent or self-reliant. These trade deals are really bad for America.