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egbertowillies

(4,058 posts) Mon Apr 16, 2018, 11:55 AM Apr 2018

While China Picks Winners, Trump Picks Losers

“It’s nonsense that there’s a beautiful free market in the power industry,” Energy Secretary Rick Perry said last week as he pushed for a government bailout of coal-fired power plants.

Republicans who for years have voted against subsidies for solar and wind power – arguing that the “free market” should decide our energy future – are now eager to have government subsidize coal.

https://egbertowillies.com/2018/04/15/reich-china-picks-winners-trump-osers/

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While China Picks Winners, Trump Picks Losers (Original Post) egbertowillies Apr 2018 OP

As ugly a TPP is or was, it was our ONLY way to compete. Eliot Rosewater Apr 2018 #1

Eliot Rosewater

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1. As ugly a TPP is or was, it was our ONLY way to compete.

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Mon Apr 16, 2018, 11:55 AM

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