Saturday, March 3, 2018

Spin machine


Trapped sad little soaking wet kittens. Can't even lie well. 

We have another mass murder in a gun-free zone within a Democrat stronghold and immediately the surviving victims are activated against NRA and 2nd Amendment and gun owners in general so extremely even the thickest see right through the organized activism and deem it cynical.

We have Democrats in high positions in government who decide among themselves their candidate must prevail no matter how much proof of corruption they must protect the public from knowing, while conversely they must smear the opposing candidate and use their trusted positions to do it. While corrupted media gives them cover. NYT and Washington post mislead their readers to give cover to FISA leakers. 

I turn on the t.v. and local newsreaders, adorable in that precise way that makes you want to punch them in the face, are presenting material they only partially understand. Wall to wall whinging of global cast of characters blathering about Trump's damage to free trade that no longer exists by their own activities. Free trade would be well worth defending if it were actually free trade, but it's woefully imbalanced trade, so not worth defending. For the patsy nation that hasn't had surplus in trade for the last three decades, the present arrangement is well worth destroying. 

Here. I made another animated picture gif for you.


This is Liu Zhongtian, Chinese billionaire, who has amassed 6% of the world's aluminum in Mexico, with America his target market, to best exploit a loophole in NAFTA in conjunction with other global manufacturers. America already has tariff on Chinese steel and Chinese aluminum to counter their cheaper nationally subsidized production. Globalists massively moving production to both Mexico and Canada exploit this loophole in NAFTA that makes exporting to United States much less expensive to them. While their own tariffs on American production makes up the difference to their subsidized industries that undercut American production. 

At home I'll open a new box of aluminum foil and hold the roll in my hands and marvel at it precision. This roll is quite extraordinary. I'm amazed it's even legal for me to own. It has the same metallic gravitas as a gun and it's impressive that I can even own it. This came out of the earth and technology refined it and flattened it precisely onto this gorgeous roll, and international trade makes it available for my use in the kitchen! Such amazing cooperation and work and technology for something so prosaic. Then I look at the pictures of Liu Zhongtian's aluminum stockpile in industrial rolls and in blocks, and I think, "you're raping the earth." And side-raping the United States. But we do not hold this against you personally, you're simply exploiting the holes in our treaties. 

Trump has two reasonable choices that our newsreaders cannot allow to be explained. 

1) Convince Canada and Mexico to work with him to close the loopholes that make production in their countries unfair to United States, that drain or capacity for production and make our markets opened to theirs. A thing they cannot do because it is patently disadvantageous to themselves. And Trudeau is even worse by using re-negotiation to tag on his ridiculously unproductive silly ass progressive conceits. 

2) Exit from NAFTA and re-negotiate individually.

It was a good try. We made a block of trading partners to enhance our position with respect to each other. Third party countries respond to that block such as most advantageous to all, even to the United States with lower prices for third party production, while undermining the economy's production of essential commodities. It's not just American steel and aluminum. Canada hasn't produced any steel either. They too have been undercut. Justin Trudeau um caterwauls clumsily um about fairness to um Canadian um products, not about um Canadian steel and aluminum. Canada is using all cheaper Chinese steel. We love him. Even though he's a goofball. 

2 comments:

edutcher said...

Baby Trudeau even sounds like Zippy.

Some Seppo said...

You'd think a free trade agreement would look like this: From this day forward there will be no tarrifs nor physical hindrance to trade between country A and country B.

Sort of like "Congress shall make no law..."

And yet, the North American "Free" Trade agreement is a 309 page pdf.