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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (10661)7/5/2009 5:15:36 PM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (1) of 86356
 
1) The Obama recovery package has not really kicked in yet. We'll see most of that money spent between now and the first half of next year.

2) Agreed that if we incur new debt it should go to things with an ROI. Much of the recovery package is exactly that, although admittedly there is much waste in their too.

3) I don't believe in free trade with no caveats. I believe in only free trade that benefits the US. If it is trade that does not benefit the US over the long run, then I'm not for it. Alot of trade with China is a one way street, incurring new debt and loss of jobs for us and enriching them. So tariffs and other punitive measures make sense when free trade results in an economic loss for the US.

This is part of the problem with GOP dogma. Some campaign slogans have become like inflexible edicts for the GOP minions that don't stop to think about what they really mean. Free trade, capitalism, Democracy, freedom, fiscal conservatism. The GOP doesn't know what those mean any more. The Dems don't either.
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