08-30-2016, 11:31 AM
(08-28-2016, 10:16 AM)Anthony Wrote:Quote:Hillary's better-than-nothing is much better than Trump's better-than-nothing.
But Hillary is offering Paul Fussell's mid proles and low proles less than nothing - no wage bump because she's for the TPP and amnesty for illegal aliens, and higher taxes on them in the form of a 2.2% across-the-board increase to pay for expanded ObamaCare.
The TPP will have no impact on employment; it's primarily an intellectual property agreement that provides a formal bases for resolving some trade disputes. The big trade hit on domestic employment came from China's entry into the WTO; there will never be any trade related issue that is going to repeat that impact. And those jobs to China are not coming back no matter what trade agreement, tariff or whatever happens. China is losing them to other nations like Vietnam that now have lower costs and all these jobs are getting creamed by automation regardless of where the manufacturing takes place. It's time to realize that vacuum tubes are no longer inside our radios.
I think your 2.2% was a Bernie thingee; not going to happen.