Virgil Goode is a former Congressman from Virginia. He was once a Democrat, then a Republican, and is now affiliated with the Constitution Party. He is rumored to be a potential candidate for the Constitution Party Presidential nomination in 2012. This appeared in The American Conservative:
Last week, the New York Times reported that Obama received received “rare bipartisan praise” from Republicans when he signed the South Korean Free Trade agreement, known as KORUS, last December. However Republicans stalled congressional approval of the agreement, largely because of “partisan feuding,” in part because Republicans want even more free trade agreements with Columbia and Panama.
While I am glad that KORUS is stalled, Republicans should oppose it on principle because it creates a globalist bureaucracy that will cost hundreds of thousands of American jobs, not because of partisan bickering over how quickly we expand these globalist agreements.
Republican supporters of KORUS claim that the agreement is about promoting capitalism, free markets, and free trade. The truth is that this agreement does not promote free markets. On the contrary, it will make American businesses more regulated…
Paulie,
I didn’t read all these posts, but I wonder if you consider the competition posed by Communist Chinese slave labor, and the like in other 3rd world countries, to be “Free Trade?”
The American people at least deserve a level playing field. This isn’t your classic Foundation on Economic Education world out there, with “nice” businesses in one country competing with those in another, with the “winner” being the more efficient business who is able to provide better service or product at a better price. If it ever was once, it sure isn’t now. It’s not even nation versus nation. It is, rather, a case of predatory multinational corporations promoting globalism and seeking to destroy national boundries and national sovereignty in order to allow them access to the cheapest possible (slave) labor, so they can import cheap goods into the American market (primarily) without any trade barriers [and undercut pesky unions while they are at it]. This, of course, has resulted in the destruction of this country’s manufacturing base, the continuing loss of millions of jobs and the deterioration of the American middle class and its standard of living since at least the 60’s. Just compare the number of products made in the US 50 years ago to those manufactured here today.
A free market within the US–Yes. However unbridled “free trade” trade in a world increasingly commanded by global monopolies is not in the best interests of the American people. I really don’t see the evil in a trade policy that considers the best interests of the American people as opposed to the corporations and the banking interests.
Illusion of it being the key words there.
Those are not free trade.
Thereby screwing their own people in the process. See the essays I linked.
These days, there are more Mexicans and Central Americans headed back down that way then making the trek to El Norte. Pretty soon you may have a lot of Anglos trying to emigrate southways to Latin America too.
Roll Tide Roll!
One thing about a tariff, you don’t have to buy the goods. You are FORCED to pay most taxes.
There are a lot of taxes you don’t “have to” pay – stock taxes (you don’t have to own stocks), property taxes (you don’t have to own property), alcohol and cigarette taxes (you don’t have to drink or smoke). Doesn’t make it right or good.
But p you have learned the Party line well.
It has nothing whatsoever to do with any party line. I’m just saying what I believe.
Paulie, paulie I don’t even have a youtube account. I wouldn’t know how to splice it.
LOL, not you, the person who put up the clip.
I’m out here in the woods on a dailup computer
Holy crap…I didn’t know those still existed 🙂
Paulie, paulie I don’t even have a youtube account. I wouldn’t know how to splice it. I’m out here in the woods on a dailup computer that takes hours sometime just to view some of these vids.
One thing about a tariff, you don’t have to buy the goods. You are FORCED to pay most taxes. But p you have learned the Party line well. I use to preach that free trade when I was a LP candidate until I realized the “powers that be” have and are now using the illusion of it to drag our standards down to the rest of the world !Nafta-Gaff and any and all others alphabet trade agreements have overall harmed the U.S. Surely you have heard how some countries (Japan?) do let the American goods dock in port, but then allow the goods to rot on the ships! I can still remember the Clinton speech on NAFTA. He stated it would end illegal immigration from Mexico, central and south America. OH boy that was a WHOPPER !
I once was posting on a cfb teams ESPN chat page about our OC wanting a head coaching job. This team was looking for a head coach and I was looking for someone to take the coordinater AWAY from here ! Two days later a pundit came on ESPN TV and said that the team above was looking at the OC above for the HC job. Little old me to my knowledge was the only person in the world who had ever put the two in the same paragraph. The OC was fired and still hasn’t got his HC job. Three seasons later my team is National Champions ! Strange things happen on this web sometimes – !
Laugh if doeth good like a medicine…
#4 is an all-timer!!! ANYONE who thinks this buffoon’s not a puppet is a dumbass! Sorry but true ! The puppetmasters smile when they think of givings us both H.W. and W. in our lifetimes, ENJOY!
David Letterman Makes Fun of Bush in Front of Bush:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7GjfyTfjPk&NR=1&feature=fvwp
Never FEAR America “the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)” is grooming Jed Bush as you SLEEP!
WAR EAGLE just WIN baby !
@8 Tariffs are no less onerous that any other tax, regardless of whether they are constitutional. They are bad for the economy and bad from a moral standpoint.
Virgil NEEDS to add something to the GOP POTUS race! Source? -From what they have give America in the past they NEED him in the race now
I see. So you are trying to start a rumor, not confirm one?
BTW nice time-spliced youtube clip, lol.
I think tariffs are written into the Constitution to fund the federal gov’t. I can agree to that as the “ONLY” way to fund it ! Can I get a second ?
Virgil NEEDS to add something to the GOP POTUS race! Source? -From what they have give America in the past they NEED him in the race now >
Is GEORGE WALKER BUSH Retarded?… Got a minute to find out? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyAdhVxtDq0&feature=related
Never FEAR America “they” are grooming Jed Bush as you SLEEP!
Hey Don, Seidenberg has been posting recently on Ballot Access News.
Read these essays to see why Grundmann is wrong in his economic arguments:
http://www.amatecon.com/etext/cftoi/cftoi-toc.html
BTW NAFTA is not free trade, it is globally managed trade. Free trade is very simple; it does not empower or create bureaucracies and it does not involve book length agreements by coercion-based entities inserting themselves in an unwelcome fashion into voluntary interactions among willing participants.
There is in fact no such thing as ” free trade ” as national governments
Correct, national governments should stay out of the way, regardless of where companies or individuals involved in trade are located. If it’s voluntary, it should not be prohibited, interfered with or taxed – period.
” BTW, the only fair trade is free trade. There is nothing fair about anyone interfering in trade between consenting parties.”
Response – There is in fact no such thing as ” free trade ” as national governments and, especially, currency differentials are used by behind the scene powers to manipulate the wonderful sounding but reality deficient concept of ” free trade.” ” Free trade ” itself is an economic weapon which has been used throughout recent history to attack the domestic industry of the target nation; as was our nation attacked via Britain in its founding years. Military victory is not the only, nor the best, way to defeat the United States. Economic attack via so-called ” free trade,” as evidenced by the passage of NAFTA as one partial example, can be used to destroy a nation albeit by a slower process. The U.S. has been reduced from a creditor nation to a debtor nation in a few short years via ” free trade.” By continuing down the same, and even accelerated, path it is only a matter of time before economic collapse, at least as worse if not far more so than Greece and Ireland, comes to our nation. Philosophically ” free trade ” sounds fine. In the REAL WORLD nations must protect themselves economically just as much if not more than militarily. When we DON’T protect ourselves we end up with the resulting economic trainwreck that is unfolding. It was via the application of tariffs that our nation protected our domestic industry and became the greatest economic power in the world. Unfortunately at this moment only the Constitution Party is working for the protection of our workers and industry from the ravages of so-called ” free trade.” Everyone else has sold out to the corporate powers which are the driving force behind the free trade sell out of our citizens.
Don J. Grundmann, D.C. Chairman American Independent Party, California branch of the Constitution Party
Anything to the rumor that Virgil Goode is thinking about entering the Iowa Caucus and NH primary on the GOP side ?
I haven’t heard that from anyone except you. Got sources?
BTW, the only fair trade is free trade. There is nothing fair about anyone interfering in trade between consenting parties.
Anything to the rumor that Virgil Goode is thinking about entering the Iowa Caucus and NH primary on the GOP side ? Make all those Rockefeller, Goldman Sachs’ GLOBALIST PUPPET candidates squirm, Virgil !
Think about a debate with Virgil Goode standing up for the American people against all those bought and paid for new world order LACKEYS! Goode is a southern drawl gent but he isn’t the meek and mild type like Paul. Yes that would be interesting…
Fair-free trade is always the way to go. Someone said if goods don’t cross borders, troops will! There is nothing wrong with trade, it MUST BE FAIR however!!! “Friendship with all nation, entangling alliances (treaties) with none”…