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RBInMaine

(13,570 posts)
Mon Oct 3, 2016, 06:40 AM Oct 2016

Hillary must take the trade issue away from Trump.

On the campaign trail and in the next debates, Hillary must take the trade issue away from Trump because folks especially in the heartland want manufacturing jobs. Period.

She has to clearly say she will not sign the TPP, will re-negotiate all trade deals to make them fairer, and will even use tariffs to level the playing field.

She has got to talk clearly about bringing back MANUFACTURING and penalizing companies that move to the third world. She has to talk about how it is better for companies to make things here because shipping costs are much less, and she can talk about other ways to encourage manufacturing here.

And she needs to talk BIGTIME about how Trump talks a big game but happily makes his ties, shirts, and furniture in China, Mexico, and Bangladesh and even has said he is happy to be able to employ people in those places.

This is a MUST.

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Hillary must take the trade issue away from Trump. (Original Post) RBInMaine Oct 2016 OP
Agreed, but many don't believe her MichMan Oct 2016 #1
Sure, because the media would never ever NEVER focus more on the change than the message, right? BobbyDrake Oct 2016 #2

MichMan

(11,915 posts)
1. Agreed, but many don't believe her
Mon Oct 3, 2016, 07:41 AM
Oct 2016

This is a big deal around here. Unfortunately, many don't believe her regarding TPP. She previously was on record as supporting TPP & regarding NAFTA, I don't recall her ever saying it shouldn't have been signed it in the first place (for obvious reasons). With the president in support of TPP, most see her as a continuation of his policies.

Also, President Obama also said multiple times prior to the election about how he would renegotiate NAFTA, but nothing ever happened. I don't think many people really trust her to do it this time.

 

BobbyDrake

(2,542 posts)
2. Sure, because the media would never ever NEVER focus more on the change than the message, right?
Mon Oct 3, 2016, 08:53 AM
Oct 2016

Because we would never see this media, our media, make a bigger deal about Clinton changing her position than what she actually changed her position to, huh?

Holy cow, did you just get here? And by "here," I mean "Planet Earth."

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